An archaeological museum at the Aztec pyramid displays signs of the New Fire ritual performed every 52 years.

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

An ode to a chess-loving diplomat.

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

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

An abstract sculpture memorializing a student massacre that took place in 1971.

A small building that loosely resembles a tooth is appropriately used as a dentist office.

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

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.