This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

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

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

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

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 curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.