A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

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

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.