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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

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

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

For nearly a century, one of the oldest barbershops in Texas has been cutting hair the old fashioned way.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.