In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

A colorful public mural in San Antonio's West Side encourages students to stay in school.

A priceless work of art created by the saint's own blood sister hangs in a San Antonio basilica.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.