Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

In Midtown Atlanta, tons of marble appears to be devouring a Fiat Panda at this unique art installation.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

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

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

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

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

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

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

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

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

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