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

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

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."

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

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 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.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.