Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico
Son of the Tree of the Night of Sorrows
A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.
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Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico
A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.
White Rock, British Columbia
Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.
Burlington, Washington
A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.
Guapi, Colombia
The world's only pure blue lizard lives exclusively on this secluded tropical island.
San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.
Santa Ana Chapitiro, Mexico
This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.
Tokyo, Japan
A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.
Iwakuni, Japan
A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.
Heidelberg, Germany
A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.
Tokyo, Japan
This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.
Tokyo, Japan
Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.
Tokyo, Japan
Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.
Anstruther, Scotland
Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.
Mars, Pennsylvania
Could it have picked a better place to land?
Guatavita, Colombia
The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.
Taylor, Nebraska
This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.
Carnation, Washington
This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.
Malang, Indonesia
This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.
Blimbing, Indonesia
Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.
Jodhpur, India
Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.
Shiraz, Iran
A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.
La Morra, Italy
This brightly-colored chapel is a contemporary jewel standing in the middle of a La Morra vineyard.
Paraty, Brazil
This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.