The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

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

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

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

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

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

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.