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

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

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

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

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

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.