San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
El Charco del Ingenio (The Mill Puddle)
This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.
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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
This art shopping center still boasts pieces of its past as a textile factory.
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Colonial architecture meets urban art in this sprawling open-air gallery.
Sayulita, Mexico
This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."
Guadalajara, Mexico
One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.
Guadalajara, Mexico
This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.
Guadalajara, Mexico
A beautiful and controversial modern sculpture that alludes to the Aztec past identity of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the phenomenon of syncretism.
Guadalajara, Mexico
For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Guanajuato, Mexico
A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.
Edmonton, Alberta
An outdoor installation of 20 vintage signs that once hung in front of businesses throughout town.
Edmonton, Alberta
This unique bridge has been a staple across the Saskatchewan River Valley for more than 100 years.
Edmonton, Alberta
This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.
Bran, Romania
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
Sighișoara, Romania
This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.
Sighișoara, Romania
Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.
Sofia, Bulgaria
This building has two facades of clashing architectural designs.
Sibiu, Romania
Something's watching you.
Bratislava, Slovakia
No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.