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

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.