Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

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

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

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.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

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

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.