The world’s oldest baseball field had to fight to earn its record.

This 12-seat movie theater is the smallest in the world.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

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

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

The oldest Black-owned bookstore in New Orleans was started by a substitute teacher on a mission.

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

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

This free sculpture garden is home to over 90 artworks and installations from artists around the world.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

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

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

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

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