The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.