Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

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

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

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

Inside this mansion turned museum, the works of prominent Croatian artists are on full display.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.