Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

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

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

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

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

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

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

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

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

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

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

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

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