The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

A statue in Balderas subway station honors the rock star who wrote about it in a song.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

This striking building appears to defy gravity, a tower balancing atop a much smaller cube.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

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

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.