A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

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

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

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.