This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

The world's largest wooden structure.

This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

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

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

You can still walk across this beautiful medieval bridge in Andorra.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.