Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.