A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.

Once the primary source of ice in this region during the mid-20th century.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

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