Places Laylao89 Wants to Go

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

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

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

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.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.