This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

The world's most remote airport.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.