New Orleans, Louisiana
Backstreet Cultural Museum
The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.
Grants, New Mexico
A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.
Pompeii, Italy
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Key West, Florida
A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.
Key West, Florida
The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.
Key West, Florida
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Chicago, Illinois
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Wilmington, Illinois
This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.
Duluth, Minnesota
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.