Once a predominant stomping ground of Hasidic Jews and veritable urban industrial wasteland, the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn has reinvented itself (due in part to its geographic proximity to the waterfront and Manhattan) as a thriving community of artists and artist wannabes as well as the brunt of many a snarky blog post.
Like a Taco Truck in LA, this is a truck that sells treats! Cookies and brownies, everything is so good.
Any good walking tour of Santa Fe would not be complete without a visit to Seret & Sons. Seret & Sons is a wonderful feast for the senses, featuring a wide variety of antique and hand crafted items from around the world.
Sharp, pointed formations inside Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
Resurrecting New Orleans with a blast of sound, marching bands from far and wide strutted their stuff during Mardi Gras first post-Katrina celebration.
For this bead monger, "The Big Easy" never sounded better.
Through the painstaking reconstruction of houses in New Orleans' Ninth Ward visitors catch glimpses of homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Even more unusual is the eerie aura of abandonment that has taken up residence here.
Irony creates drama. Apparently so does color.
Taken during a pause in the the first post-Katrina Mardi Gras celebration, colorful parade-goers exhibit movie set expressions as they gawk at the upcoming float.
The Strand Bookstore is a New York City must-do for book lovers from all over.
The view of Manhattan, most notably Central Park, from Rockefeller Center's observation deck.
Crowds jump and cheer for beads as floats pass by during the Krew d'etat Marti Gras parade in uptown New Orleans.