A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

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

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

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

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

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.