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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

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

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.