This largely abandoned village was home to a bustling mining community in the Soviet era.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

This under-visited temple is nestled within one of Shanghai's traditional shikumen-style residential blocks.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

A temple complex has existed on this site since the third century.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

The earliest pagoda built in the beautiful Panmen Scenic Area of Suzhou.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

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

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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

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

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

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