The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.