The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

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

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

The man who wasn't there.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.