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

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.