Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

This non-profit restaurant offers job training and skills to members of the Central City community.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

This dollhouse-sized art museum features creations from local artists.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.

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

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

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

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.

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

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

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

In 1857, the Mardi Gras parade tradition began at this intersection.

Rise early for Kaitlin Guerin’s coveted sweet and savory pastries.

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

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

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.