This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

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.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.