Places Ron Buening Wants to Go

A building that was once a general store, a speakeasy, and a newspaper office now holds a small gallery filled with New Orleans photography.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

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

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

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

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum showcases fabric and mixed media work by artists of great international renown as well as local and outsider artists.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.