This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

Dating to 1793, this is the oldest building in Poolesville.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.