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 final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

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

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

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

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

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.