The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

The world's longest covered bridge is a quaint and incredible wooden tunnel.

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

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

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

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

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.