After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

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

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

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

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

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

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

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

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

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

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.