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

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

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

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

This plaque honors the unsung Black songstress once known as the “greatest singer of her race.”

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.