This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

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

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

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

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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

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

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A heated sculpture pays tribute to an actor who loved hugs.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.