This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

The Estatua de la Libertad stands discretely on an obscure tangent path in Barrancas de Belgrano.

A medley of objects that represent Argentine culture, from cars to toys.

This mountainside open-air museum was built from the ashes left behind by a devastating fire.

A grotto replicating one of the world's most famed Marian apparitions sits across the ocean from the original.

One of the few remnants of an extensive tram network that once made Buenos Aires the “City of Trams.”

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

The narrowest house in Buenos Aires is less than 10 feet wide.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

A mysterious architectural gem in one of the most elegant areas of Buenos Aires.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

Dozens of elegant ceramic tiles decorate these ancient walls, each displaying the Lord's Prayer in a different language.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.