Places tdanna Wants to Go

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

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

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

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

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."