This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

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

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

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

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

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.