This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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 farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Thermal springs underneath the seabed provide the heat and bubbles for these beachside natural hot tubs.

This historic hiding place, often used by people escaping slavery, is a testament to a heroic struggle for freedom.

A remarkable range of flora and fauna are represented in this Dominican nature preserve.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.