The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The world's longest known cave system.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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.