Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

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

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

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.