The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

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

The first hospital in the New World.

The unique collection of gifts includes braids of human hair, a spoon, and a Virgin made of bread.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Because there's no place like home.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A tomb in this cemetery holds soil from every country in Latin America.

A colossal statue with a controversial past, forgotten for more than 30 years.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

This bronze boy sits on one of Capri's rocky cliffs, waving at the passing boats.

A spring water stream jumps through a walkable "bridge" cavern and a narrow canyon.

A beautiful example of 18th-century engineering still standing tall.

This beautiful and unmissable little museum is full of fascinating artifacts from Mesoamerica's great civilizations.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.