This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

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

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A peculiarly shaped brass sculpture hidden in a courtyard in central Lviv

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.