This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.