Places Crawdie Wants to Go

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

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

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

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.