A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The Painted Ladies of Ontario aren’t your average beach homes.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

The stoutest tree in the world.