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

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

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

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.