This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

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

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

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

A rattlesnake museum showcasing over 30 species, in a century-old building that used to be the general store in this tiny West Texas town.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.