The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

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

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

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 park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.