The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

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

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

The Gulf’s longest fishing pier is a year-round paradise for catch-and-release whoppers.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.