For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

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

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

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

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

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

A striking eight-story-high obelisk perched on a coastal California cliff.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Based on a real event, the statue is dedicated to those who fought and died for Zambia's independence.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

A secluded, little-known temple hidden amid the dense jungle.