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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

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

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 bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.