A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.