A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A vast collection of rare, historical, and vintage supercomputers.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

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

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

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.