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

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.