The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.