Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.