Music & Soul

New Orleans is below sea level — the city is protected by an 800-km network of levees and floodwalls.

Havana has the world's largest collection of classic American cars — 1940s and 50s Chevrolets and Buicks still used as taxis.

Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue is struck by lightning an average of 6 times per year.

Vienna was once the center of the Habsburg Empire — the city influenced all of European classical music.

Chicago was rebuilt almost entirely after the Great Fire of 1871 — the result is one of the world's greatest collections of modern architecture.

Edinburgh Castle sits on an extinct volcano called Castle Rock that erupted 350 million years ago.