What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland's second largest island emit an entrancing sound.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

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

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

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

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