This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

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

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

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

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

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.