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

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

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

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

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

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

An enchanting natural wonder in Puerto Rico's Camuy River Park.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.