Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.