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

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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

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

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

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

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

This site is dedicated to a candidate for sainthood and contains personal items including his cilice and lead coffin.

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

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

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

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

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.