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

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

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

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

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

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

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

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

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

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.