The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

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

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.