You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

A formerly derelict railway workshop is home to a new world-class contemporary art museum in Central Mexico.

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

This L.A. fixture has been serving hot dogs out of a giant hot dog since 1946.

The design of this ornately decorated place of worship closely mirrors a church in Vietnam.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.