The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.