Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

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

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

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.

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.