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

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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

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

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

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.