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

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

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

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

What better place to take a seat?

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.