A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

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 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.