A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

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.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

An Airy Would-Be Solution to a Housing Shortage.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.