A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.