Brainerd, Minnesota
Old Crow Wing
This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.
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Brainerd, Minnesota
This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.
Monticello, Minnesota
Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.
Alexandria, Minnesota
This museum is dedicated to preserving Minnesota's lake culture through displays of vintage watercraft and rotating exhibits.
Little Falls, Minnesota
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Montreal, Québec
One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Ottawa, Ontario
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
Ottawa, Ontario
The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.
Ottawa, Ontario
These prehistoric replicas were based on actual skeletal remains.
Ottawa, Ontario
Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.
Ottawa, Ontario
A rare venue to buy specialty maps.
Ottawa, Ontario
Watch maple syrup being made without ever leaving the city.
Ottawa, Ontario
These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.
New Orleans, Louisiana
After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.
Edgard, Louisiana
This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
Delta, Louisiana
The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.