This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This "Jewish Sistine Chapel" was designed to reinvigorate Judaism's artistic legacy but was almost lost to misguided restoration.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.