The Decoy Capital of the World.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

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

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

The second oldest continuously operating bar 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.