The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.