French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.