Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

The world's most remote airport.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

A former prison complex now displays a historic collection of inmate artwork.

This park feels like a lush little jungle full of wildlife nestled within São Paulo.

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.

Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.

This beautiful fountain was sculpted by a female artist who was ahead of her time.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

The other side is actually green.

Enjoy fresh-baked bread and fish from a repurposed Portuguese fortress.

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.