After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

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 tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.