This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

The final home of the legendary Danish sailor said to have lived to be 146 years old.

A public display of random paleontology.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

The former house of an anthropologist couple displays Lacandón Maya artifacts in a homey atmosphere.

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

From Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego, you won't find any lighthouse higher than this one.

Trek through the jungle on a boat and a swinging bridge and you'll be rewarded with these refreshing, if pungent, mineral pools.

A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

A massive yet whimsical statue pays homage to the art and joy of "flight."

A statue of the formerly enslaved person considered "the first liberator of the Americas" stands in the town named after him.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

Statue of Edgar Hernandez, the first victim of swine flu.

The graveyard displays the colonial Mexican and Caribbean architectural fusion that defines this city.

The population of Southeast Asian primates was introduced to Mexico in the 1970s.

This spot along the 23.5 degree north parallel marks the northern boundary of the tropics.