Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

"They died with their boots on."

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.