Places minaretlimerick Wants to Go

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

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

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.