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.

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

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

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

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.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

One of the windiest peaks in Crimea is home to an incredible set of cable bridges.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.