This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.

An extravagant 18th-century fountain built with bits of broken ceramic.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Mexico's National Sound Library houses music, recordings, and voices from the nation's rich past.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

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

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.