This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

Vice President Humphrey's final resting place is tucked away in this cemetery along with a few other notable figures.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.