A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

In 1857, the Mardi Gras parade tradition began at this intersection.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

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

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

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

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