A natural swimming hole that was once a ceremonial center for Mayan priests.

An important Mayan religious and trading center dating back to 200 BC.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.