This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

The stoutest tree in the world.

This small church is surrounded by a landscape filled with hidden Zapotec ruins.

The former textile factory is now an oasis for the arts.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

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

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

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.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

The "Mother Temple of the Pacific Islands" stands at the center of 20 acres of lush, tropical prayer gardens.

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The jewel of the museum is a rare tumulus, a funeral decoration from the 18th century.