This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

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

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

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

It would be a crime to miss it.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.