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

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.