Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

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

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

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

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

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.