A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Depending on how it is measured, this lighthouse can claim to be the tallest in Europe and the tallest conventional lighthouse in the world.

This charming stone church on the shore of Lake Tekapo is an icon in astrophotography.

Remote ruins of a 2,400-year-old Iberian settlement.

This sculpture in Valencia features 22,000 tiny, obsidian blue figures that pay homage to the Lady of Elche.

A centuries-old house, once part of the wall of Granada, sports musket barrels from the battlements which allude to its original owner.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

A museum dedicated to the centuries-old cave dwellings that housed marginalized communities on the outskirts of the former capital of Muslim Spain.

This piece of early engineering is rather unknown despite its location in the heart of Madrid.

Home to works by notable Mexican artists and an underwater mosaic of the pre-Columbian goddess Gaia.

Kingly French toast comes soaked in milk or red wine, then drizzled in a citrus-perfumed syrup.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

Military artifacts from the Salvadoran Civil War are displayed in this small but notable museum.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

These colorful sawdust illustrations are trampled into non-existence only moments after they are finished.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

Visit the last surviving outlet of a once popular chain of coffeeshops.