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

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

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

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.

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

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Roman-era ships unearthed...