This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

An ode to a chess-loving diplomat.

A shining treasure trove of fine Mexican silver dating back to the 15th century.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

These museum grounds are a Dalai Lama-declared peace oasis.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.