This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, VT.