If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

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

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

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

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.