Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

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

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.