The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

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

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.