A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

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

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A bullet-scarred monastery chronicles Mexico's turbulent history of foreign invasions.

Mexico's National Sound Library houses music, recordings, and voices from the nation's rich past.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.