Naucalpan, Mexico
El Nido de Quetzalcóatl
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
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Naucalpan, Mexico
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
Mexico City, Mexico
Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.
Mexico City, Mexico
The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.
Mexico City, Mexico
Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.
Mexico City, Mexico
Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.
Mexico City, Mexico
Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.
Mexico City, Mexico
A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.
Mexico City, Mexico
A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.
Mexico City, Mexico
Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.
Salzburg, Austria
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.
Mexico City, Mexico
66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Langseitenrotte, Austria
Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.
Krems an der Donau, Austria
A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.
Linz, Austria
Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.
Ottensheim, Austria
A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.
Kawasaki, Japan
A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.
Santa Rosa, California
Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.
Chios, Greece
Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.
Burghead, Scotland
Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.
Willaston, England
This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?