Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.