A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

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

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

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

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

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

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.