The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

Grab a pint of British-brewed ale or cider and a hot roast pork bap at this quintessential London pub.

A small pack of an ancient, hairless breed of dog once believed to guide souls through the underworld lives on its grounds.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

An ode to a chess-loving diplomat.

This mosaic made out of books represents one of Colonial Mexico's most important literary figures.

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

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

A Mexico City subway station boasts a hidden museum, complete with a working radio booth.

These subterranean models show Mexico City's central square during three different eras.

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

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

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.