Places Judy Lee Wants to Go

This free sculpture garden is home to over 90 artworks and installations from artists around the world.

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

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

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

In a city famous for its cemeteries, it's no wonder these are easy to overlook—they clock in at just a few inches tall.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

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

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

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

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

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

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

A timber transport car and a team of horses were needed to carry this lookout to the top of Mount Tarrengower in the 1920s.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

This panoramic lift provides a futuristic ride up San Pedro Mountain.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.