The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

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

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.