Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

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

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.