A symbol of Texas pride.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

New York's oldest magic store.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.