Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

New York's oldest magic store.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

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

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

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

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

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.