A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

America's first public mental health facility.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.