A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

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

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

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

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

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

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.