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Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

This Cuban town sets the sky on fire around Christmas each year.

A cemetery full of exquisite statuary, including a monument to a woman some say died of a broken heart.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

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

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

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

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.