This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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.

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.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.