Places 3POnR2 Wants to Go

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.

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

A building that was once a general store, a speakeasy, and a newspaper office now holds a small gallery filled with New Orleans photography.

In 1857, the Mardi Gras parade tradition began at this intersection.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.