New Orleans, Louisiana
The Gates of Guinee
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.
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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.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
Ponchatoula, Louisiana
One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Texas City, Texas
This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.
Odessa, Texas
A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.
San Angelo, Texas
The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
New York, New York
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
Clear Lake, Iowa
A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.
Fethiye, Turkey
These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.
Mandalay, Myanmar
This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."
Yalta, Ukraine
One of the windiest peaks in Crimea is home to an incredible set of cable bridges.
Tulum, Mexico
An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.
Cape Palliser, New Zealand
These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.
London, England
In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'
Yalta, Ukraine
Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.
Wentworth Point, Australia
Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.
London, England
Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.