This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

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

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

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

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".