This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

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

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

The only female equestrian statue in Washington, D.C. is a 15th-century French heroine.

The revival of a classic Art Deco theater.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.