An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

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

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

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

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.

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