Places ElizabethR324 Wants to Go

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

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

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.

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

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

The replica western town of Shadowhawk was built by a former Hollywood actor in Smithfield, North Carolina.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The oldest church building in the state.

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.