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

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

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

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

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

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

Experience life in one of America’s smallest neighborhoods.

The castle used by the Danish Royal Family as a hunting retreat.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

The world's longest known cave system.

Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.