This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

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

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.