With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.