An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This softball diamond has a culture all its own.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.