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

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Built in France in the 1400s, this gothic chapel now resides at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

This park harkens back to frontier life in Wisconsin.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.