The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

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

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

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

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."