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A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

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

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

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

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

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

In 1857, the Mardi Gras parade tradition began at this intersection.

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

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.