A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

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

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

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

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

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.