Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.