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

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

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

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

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.