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

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.