A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Three historic trains run on a half-mile track that features a tunnel.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.