This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

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

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

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

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

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

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

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.