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A little-known mural reveals the hydrological reason for Atlanta's founding in this location.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

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

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

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

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.