Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

The largest park in Lviv is surrounded by a network of disused rail tracks.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."