This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This recipe is set in stone.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

These ancient ruins were the final resting place of King Henry II's mistress.

This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.

Scars from the English Civil War mar this medieval sanctuary.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.