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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.