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

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

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

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.