Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

These boots are made for selfies.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

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

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

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.

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