New Orleans, Louisiana
Backstreet Cultural Museum
The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.
New Orleans, Louisiana
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.
Key West, Florida
Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.
Mill Valley, California
Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.
Avalon, California
A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.
Pasadena, California
Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.
Yucca Valley, California
A meditative space out of a fantasy story.
El Cajon, California
Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.
Solvang, California
Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.
Sacramento, California
A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.
Santee, California
A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.
Santa Monica, California
Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.
Barstow, California
Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.
Solvang, California
California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.
Pasadena, California
An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.
Manhattan Beach, California
The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.