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

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

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

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

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

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

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

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.