The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

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

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.