New Orleans, Louisiana
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.
Inyo County, California
A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.
Furnace Creek, California
This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.
Hilo, Hawaii
Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.
Hilo, Hawaii
Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
Inyo County, California
Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.
Monterey, California
Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.
Death Valley, California
Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Inyo County, California
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.