Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

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

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

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

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

The cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.