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 collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

According to a local legend, this peculiar mountaintop rock formation is actually a demon that was turned into stone.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

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

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

This large sculpture of white plates and forms is actually a huge sound amplifier.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.