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

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

A mysterious dark-skinned Christ statue has been this town's religious center for centuries.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

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