An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

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

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

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

The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.