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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

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

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.

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

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

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

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.