A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.