A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.