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The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

This abandoned convent keeps the tomb of a legendary beheaded princess.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

A curious museum of old video game consoles hidden in the back of a store.

Puerto Rico's once thriving oil company is now an abandoned wonderland of rusty steel.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.

A detailed 1:32 scale model of Scandinavia's largest telescope.

These strikingly colorful paintings were created by a mysterious Mesoamerican civilization.

These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

An archaeological museum at the Aztec pyramid displays signs of the New Fire ritual performed every 52 years.

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

The (usually) serene burial place of the world's most notorious drug lord.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

The final resting place of the liberator of Argentina is guarded around the clock by two soldiers.