This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

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

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.