An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

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

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

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

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

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

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

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

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.

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

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