New Orleans, Louisiana
Napoleon House
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.
New Orleans, Louisiana
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.
Borrego Springs, California
A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.
Palomar Mountain, California
A world-class observatory in the California desert.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Topanga, California
The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.
Yermo, California
A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.
Nye County, Nevada
The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.
White Pine County, Nevada
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
Austin, Nevada
This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!
Goldfield, Nevada
Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.
Henderson, Nevada
Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.
Tonopah, Nevada
There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Pasadena, California
An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.
Los Angeles, California
A Bicycle Path in the Sky.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.