Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

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

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

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

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

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.