Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.