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

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

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

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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