A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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 oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.