One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The middle finger of modernity.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

An Ecuadorian haberdashery that sets the record straight about the so-called "Panama" hat.

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

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

A giant Jesus statue watches over the city of Saltillo from the top of a mountain where it has been commandeered by vandals.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

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

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.