This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

This narrow street is packed with street vendors and bars selling chicha.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.

Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

A replica of one of South Korea's National Treasures stands as a tribute to that country's relations with Mexico.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

Skyscraper powered by wind turbines attached between its towers.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.