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

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

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

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

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The world's longest known cave system.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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