Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The stoutest tree in the world.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

This exquisite example of early colonial architecture remains unfinished almost 500 years after construction began.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

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

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

A small building that loosely resembles a tooth is appropriately used as a dentist office.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

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

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.