A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.