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

Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The most confusing clock in New York.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.