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

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

The art deco colossus played a role in war and medicine aside from hosting the iconic Louisiana Hayride.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

These Honduran caves earned their magical nickname thanks to reflective bone deposits.

These colorful sawdust illustrations are trampled into non-existence only moments after they are finished.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

This restored colonial house was once home to the botanist responsible for bringing avocados to the U.S.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

Hidden in the highlands of Guatemala, a small shrine venerates a forbidden folk saint.

An art gallery that celebrates Indigenous Maya practices and traditions.

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.

For the deepest sleep of your life, head 1,375 feet underground in Wales.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.