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

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

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

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

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.