This statue in Plaza San Francisco commemorates a beloved figure from 1950s Havana.

This Cuban town sets the sky on fire around Christmas each year.

A cemetery full of exquisite statuary, including a monument to a woman some say died of a broken heart.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A whimsical European-style chateau that calls the coast of Chile home.

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

The world's most remote airport.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

For centuries, Jeddah’s old town was a major trading port and a point of entry for Hajj pilgrims traveling by sea.

Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.