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

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

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.

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 theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.