A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

A giant concrete Brutalist water tower in suburban Johannesburg.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

It's estimated that half of the world's gold was mined from South Africa's "golden arc."

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.