Amid lush greenery, a man-made channel peppered with graffiti that dates back to 1881.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.

The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."