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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.