This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

Resembling a 15th century medieval fortress, this home once belonged to a legend of Mexican cinema.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

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

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

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

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

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

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

Unchanged for centuries, this medieval library keeps its books in chains.

Located inside Hoge Veluwe National Park, this museum began as the private collection of a prominent female art collector.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.