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.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

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

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

In 1857, the Mardi Gras parade tradition began at this intersection.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

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

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

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

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.