This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.