One of Mexico’s historic pottery-producing towns is home to a museum showcasing the craft.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

This singular Mexican structure is considered a masterpiece of the Tapatía architectural school.

For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.

A beautiful and controversial modern sculpture that alludes to the Aztec past identity of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the phenomenon of syncretism.

This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.

An imposing pair of sphinxes stand guard outside this Egyptian Revival tomb.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.