A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

The former Mexican president kept the bullets that killed his predecessor on display in his home, now a museum.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

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

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

At least seven hues of blue and turquoise make this freshwater lagoon unique.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.