A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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.

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

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

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

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

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

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

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.