This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

A replica of the Statue of Liberty watches over the tomb of 72 Chinese revolutionaries.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

A tidal bore with its own festival.

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.

Unusual outdoor collection of sculptures.

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

The man who is mainly remembered for a chicken dish he had nothing to do with is buried under a large concrete dome.

These mountain hot springs have seen power struggles, doomed romances, and a generalissimo's attempted escape from mutiny.

China has many statues of the general and war god, but none are as epic as this.

The wartime boat shelter now doubles as an underground concert hall where musicians play on rafts along the waterway.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

This under-visited temple is nestled within one of Shanghai's traditional shikumen-style residential blocks.

One of China's last communal villages wears its ideals on its sleeve.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.