An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

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

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

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

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

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

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

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Morocco's largest Jewish cemetery.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.