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

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

This stunning and ethereal mural symbolizes the beauty, unity, and diversity of humankind.

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

A small 12th-century temple surrounded by waters believed to have curative properties.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?