A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

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.

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

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

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

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

The former house of an anthropologist couple displays Lacandón Maya artifacts in a homey atmosphere.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.