The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.