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

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

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

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

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

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

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

One of the oldest bridges in Norwich was used during the English witch trials and is said to be haunted.

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

One of the longest footbridges in Europe.

This abandoned bridge over the River Irvine may be the oldest surviving railway viaduct in the world.

The last Viking king of Denmark is buried inside the crypt of this cathedral.

According to local history, this cast-iron canine was nearly melted down for bullets during the Civil War.

Though difficult to access, this stunning cave has a place in Scotland's poetic history.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

During World War II, a number of important sculptures and paintings were moved to this castle for safekeeping.