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This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

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

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

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

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

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

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A stone face watches over the river.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.