New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

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

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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 legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.