Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

Colombia's biggest botanical garden contains plants from all across the country.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.