Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

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 small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.