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

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.