Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

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

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

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

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.