This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

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

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

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

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

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

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

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

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

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.