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.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

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

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.