A clay house decorated with ceramic chips in Tianjin.

This massive neon wheel is the only one of its kind to be built over a bridge.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

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

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

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

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

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

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

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.