A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

The majestic, sacred tree is represented on this piece of public infrastructure.

This isolated Maya cemetery in Chiapas is distinguished by its towering, colorful wooden crosses.

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

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.