Places lostslav Wants to Go

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

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

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.