This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

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

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.