Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

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

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

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

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

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

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.