This ancient gaming tool was unearthed during the construction of this former town's central square.

These floating gardens show what Mexico City used to look during the Aztec Empire.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

This architectural wonder of Mexico City houses several art schools and national research centers.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

Murals made with millions of colorful stones adorn the abandoned building.

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

The burial ground of two kings and a queen is now a calm city park in the middle of bustling Seoul.

A unique structure located on the grounds of one of five grand palaces that were built by the Joseon dynasty.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.