Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.