This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.