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A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.

Japan’s only surviving winding tower.

One of Mexico’s historic pottery-producing towns is home to a museum showcasing the craft.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

A gallery displaying the psychedelic-fueled art of the indigenous Huichol people.

This concrete amphitheater offers an unforgettable view of one of Mexico's most beautiful canyons.

The Rio Lerma (Chignahuapan) in El Salto, Mexico, is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. It’s covered in white foam, and falling in can kill.

An outdoor spiritual site where a strange acoustic phenomenon creates a powerful, hollow echo when you speak from the center of a mosaic circle.

The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.

This grand yet little-visited tomb seems almost carved into the hill it sits on.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

The spectacular subterranean collection includes dazzling minerals, including a piece of "kryptonite."

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

The world's only moving mud pot has left a path of destruction to local infrastructure

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

Marvel at this immense work of art that greets arrivals to the city.

This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.