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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

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

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

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The world's longest known cave system.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.