This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

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.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

Where the oil industry began.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

A local prank turned town icon.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.