Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

The last of its kind in the country.

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.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.