This restored opera house is named after a soprano known for tragic romance, exile, and a truly uncomfortable wedding.

From Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego, you won't find any lighthouse higher than this one.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.