Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

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

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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.