New Orleans, Louisiana
The Gates of Guinee
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.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.
New Orleans, Louisiana
One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Portland, Maine
The only museum in the world dedicated to the global, historic, and modern art of beadwork.
Rye, New Hampshire
Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.
Manteo, North Carolina
So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.
Manteo, North Carolina
The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.
Manteo, North Carolina
Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.
Laconia, New Hampshire
The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Sutton, Massachusetts
This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.
Upton, Massachusetts
This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.
Milford, Massachusetts
This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.