The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

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

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A science teacher's dream.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.