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

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

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

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

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

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.