This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

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

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.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

A curious cone-shaped structure made of wire and covered with antlers.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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