Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

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

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.