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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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 collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

This seasonal soft serve shack has been doling out silky swirls since 1951.

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.