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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.