The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

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

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.