The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

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

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

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 historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.