During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

America's first federal monument.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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 only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.