This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

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

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.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.