People look through an outdoor ad frame while sitting on a bench in section 2 of the High Line in New York. The ribbon was cut Tuesday, June 7 on the long-awaited second section of the High Line, revealing a lush green lawn, prime lounging spots and a less-industrial feel than the original stretch of the famous park built on abandoned railroad tracks 30 feet above ground.

This 1934 shows a train on street level in New York. Freight traffic in the area began on street level in 1847, delivering dairy, meat and produce to factories and packing plants on the West Side near the Hudson River. The trains crashed so often with traffic — first carriages, then cars — that 10th Avenue was dubbed "Death Avenue." Signalmen on horses waving red flags dubbed West Side Cowboys weren't much help, so the tracks were elevated in 1934.

This 1953 photo shows "View on the Tracks," a view of the Empire State Building from the High Line in New York.

Visitors to section 1 of Manhattan's High Line stroll along the elevated railway converted to a city park that winds through the meatpacking District and West Chelsea neighborhoods, in New York, on June 3. The first segment opened in June 2009 and runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street.

A man with a tattoo at a market in downtown Bangkok on March 9. On June 2, Thailand ordered a crackdown on foreign tourists having religious images tattooed on their bodies while visiting the kingdom, official media said.

The world's longest cigar that stretched 268 feet 4 inches, or most of the length of a football field, is seen in Havana May 3. Resting on tables, it sprawled through El Morro, an old Spanish fort overlooking Havana Bay, where Cuba is holding its annual International Tourism Fair. The cigar, once it is officially accepted by Guinness World Records in London, will eclipse the previous record cigar of 148 feet 9 inches, both rolled by Jose Castelar Cairo, better known as "Cueto".

Sheep graze at the ancient Greek and Roman ruined city of Cyrene in modern-day Shahaat, eastern Libya March 26, 2011. Founded in 4th century BC by Greeks and later Romanised, Cyrene was one of the principal cities in the Hellenic world. Near Cyrene, one of the most important cities of the Hellenic world, are the lush hills and cool climes of Jebel al-Akhdar, but no facilities for tourists.

Sheep graze at the ancient Greek and Roman ruined city of Cyrene in modern-day Shahaat, eastern Libya.

People walk in the ancient Greek and Roman ruined city of Cyrene.

Ramses Secondary Temple of Luxor in front of one of the Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor, Egypt, Dec. 6, 2010. Luxor is creating a park that has been part of an UNESCO funded project to excavate and create a park of the Avenue of the Sphinxes which stretches about 1.5 miles to the Temple of Karnak.

Tourists visiting the Middle Kingdom pharanoic Temple of Luxor take photographs.