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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.

This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

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

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.