Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The cross-shaped memorial is filled with kitschy tributes to the late pop star.

This remote church calls a tiny island its sanctuary.

This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.

One of the city's most imposing Neoclassical buildings is also one of its most prestigious schools.

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

An inland seafood emporium makes more sense than you'd think.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

This immense scene of a cosmic battle between a jaguar and serpent illustrates the Aztec concept of the duality of life.

A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.

This piece of a Renaissance-era Spanish castle remained lost for decades.

Mexico City decorates its facades with extravagant floral arrangements every year.

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

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.