Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Two cannon-like cranes were installed on top of the bank building to fend off bad feng shui.

A serene space tucked amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong's bustling financial district.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”