A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

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

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.

A bronze sculpture dedicated to a historic labor dispute in the U.S. automotive industry.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

This 19th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.