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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.