A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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.

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

The magic's in the hole!

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.