San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.

Known as the most resilient water tower in the region.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

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

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.