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.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

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

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

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

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.