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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A heated sculpture pays tribute to an actor who loved hugs.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

A train car sitting on a rooftop makes an unlikely and picturesque setting for dinner.

This 20-story artwork on a public housing block is the tallest mural in the Southern Hemisphere and tells the story of a community.

The Collingwood production facility for a department store that was among the largest and earliest in Australia.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.