After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.