Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

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

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

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

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

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

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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