A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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 second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.