Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The 19th-century hacienda house is filled with Aztec sculptures.

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

Statue of Edgar Hernandez, the first victim of swine flu.

A statue of the formerly enslaved person considered "the first liberator of the Americas" stands in the town named after him.

The graveyard displays the colonial Mexican and Caribbean architectural fusion that defines this city.

This isolated Maya cemetery in Chiapas is distinguished by its towering, colorful wooden crosses.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.

A field of whimsical floats, where all of your favorite childhood stories have been put out to pasture.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.