Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

The remains of an Aztec school and various intriguing artifacts lie below a modern cultural center.

A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

The first hospital in the New World.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.