This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A heated statue pays tribute to one of Sweden's great actresses.

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.