Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

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

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

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

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This non-profit restaurant offers job training and skills to members of the Central City community.

This delightful attraction features over a dozen miniature train layouts which you can operate and interact with.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

The location of the world's first telescope demonstration.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.