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

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

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

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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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 snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.