The world's first museum of its kind is packed with nostalgic relics of the past.

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

A hidden room within the church displays an amazing collection of old choir books.

This historic Mexican convent is home to a tree that grows crucifix-like thorns.

This eerily opulent residential museum is home to a haunting local legend.

This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.

This art shopping center still boasts pieces of its past as a textile factory.

Colonial architecture meets urban art in this sprawling open-air gallery.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

The stoutest tree in the world.

This small church is surrounded by a landscape filled with hidden Zapotec ruins.

The former textile factory is now an oasis for the arts.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.