After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A lone bronze figure stands in memory of historic a 19th century land grab.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.