A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Antiques by the Bay.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

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

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.