New Orleans: This area is where the better half lives

A lone string of beads dangles from a limb on Napoleon. Beads like this hang everywhere on St. Charles. It's equal parts eerie and hilarious. While it's clear that a party happened here (and does every year), the beads really do like, well, dead. Their colour has dulled, the revelers are long gone, and everyone now walks idly by.

Behold a fountain in Audubon Park, at the edge of a golf course. Hanging out in this part of town, you'd never have guessed anything had happened in this city (contrast visible here).

The golf course in Audubon Park. In the distance is a tower at the entrance to Loyola University. People here must always be happy, happy, happy. Money does that, right?