If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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.

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

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

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

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

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

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

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.