A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

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

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

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

A miniatures park with a model of Wolf's Lair as it looked during World War II.