Places leiladelvalle Wants to Go

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

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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

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

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

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.