A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

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

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.

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

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.