This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital.