New Orleans, Louisiana
Metairie Cemetery
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Indio, California
Shields Date Garden
A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.
Mecca, California
International Banana Museum
World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.
Palm Springs, California
Shiprock, Palm Springs
A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Tumbleweed Snowman
Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
National Museum of Kyrgyzstan
Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.
Aralsk, Kazakhstan
Aral Sea
Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.
Kyrgyzstan
Burana Tower
Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.
Barskoon, Kyrgyzstan
Monument to Yuri Gagarin
A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.
Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
Dungan Mosque
Built entirely of interlocking pieces, construction of this Chinese Muslim house of worship required zero nails.
Tash-Bashat, Kyrgyzstan
Eki-Naryn Forest Swastika
The origin of this sinisterly shaped forest is rooted in mystery.
Tambopata, Peru
Tambopata Research Center
One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.
