The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.