An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

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

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

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

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

A secret, ethereal waterfall beneath the picturesque gardens.

Scary stories haunt this wooden bridge.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.

The former home of the "Father of Black History"

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

National Mall monument to the inventor of the screw propeller.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

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

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.