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

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.