Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.