These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

Murals made with millions of colorful stones adorn the abandoned building.

The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

This warehouse-gallery-shop hybrid showcases Mexican craftwork at its best.

Diego Rivera hid various people and symbols in his first large-scale mural project.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.