Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

An extravagant 18th-century fountain built with bits of broken ceramic.

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

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

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

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

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.

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

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.