Places clarochelle Wants to Go

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

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

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

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.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.