The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

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

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

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

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.

This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.