The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Found down a long dirt road, a sacred Mexican cenote and 18th-century hacienda remain hidden.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.