This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

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

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.