Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

The eccentric and colorful pavilions of Tower Grove park are a beloved and overlooked symbol. 

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

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

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

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

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

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

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