The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

This unofficial museum details the rise and fall of Colombia's most notorious narcotrafficker, Pablo Escobar.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

The ruins of a Roman fort lie in the shadows of an imposing medieval castle.

An anti-tank graveyard in the English countryside.

Almost too short to be an actual street, this stretch of road maintains a unique moniker.

A tomb in this cemetery holds soil from every country in Latin America.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This striking, historic hotel has major Wes Anderson movie energy.

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.