The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A memorial to the thousands of political dissidents imprisoned during the 40-year period of martial law in Taiwan.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.