Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

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

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

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

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.

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

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

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

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

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.