Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

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

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

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

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

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.