Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

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

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A local prank turned town icon.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

Walk in the footsteps of the famed astronaut at Purdue University.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.