This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

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

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

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The Port of Yokohama’s customs headquarters building resembles a Moorish kasbah, complete with a minaret.

A romantic escape inspired by the legend of a child-eating five-headed dragon.

The oft-overlooked site of one of the first marine biological research facilities in the world.

An eclectic fountain commemorating the 1964 Summer Olympics.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

This frenetic mural recalls an annual festival that once took the city by storm.