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

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

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

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

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

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.