The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.