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

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

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.