This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

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

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.

From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Giant papier mache hog sits on private property.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.