A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

These ruins are a hidden gem, complete with fantastic views over the cliff edge.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.