This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

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.

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

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

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.