A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

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.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

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

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.