Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

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

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.