Mexico City, Mexico
Santuario Nacional del Angel de la Santa Muerte
A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.
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Mexico City, Mexico
A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Tula, Mexico
These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.
Valparaiso, Chile
Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.
Viña del Mar, Chile
Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.
Santa Luzia, Portugal
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.
Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.
São Miguel, Portugal
This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.
Chignahuapan, Mexico
Visit this small Mexican church to pray to a mushroom that is supposedly marked with the image of Christ.
Puebla, Mexico
A former factory hosts an amazing collection of Mexican marionettes.
Puebla, Mexico
The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.
Abergele, Wales
After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.
Madrid, Spain
A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.
Galway, Ireland
This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
Kilkenny, Ireland
These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.
Paisley, Scotland
A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.
Cârța, Romania
Climbing to the top of the cathedral's bell tower offers sweeping views of these medieval ruins.
Joliet, Illinois
A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
These small sculptures pay homage to the lovable star of an iconic Argentine comic strip.
Chittorgarh, India
A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.
Budapest, Hungary
A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.