This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.