Places byorgason Wants to Go

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

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

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

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

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

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

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

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

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.