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

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

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

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.