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An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

Its sunny hues are believed to have inspired the town's color palette.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

Thousands of Matchbox cars spanning generations call this New Jersey barn home.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.