Because there's no place like home.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

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.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The F1 Mexican Grand Prix circuit goes right through the middle of this old baseball stadium.

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

Its incredible collections are dedicated to preserving Mexico's film history.

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

These museum grounds are a Dalai Lama-declared peace oasis.

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

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

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

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

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

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

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.