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

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

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

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

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

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

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

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

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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