Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

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

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

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 stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.