A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.

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

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.