According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.