This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

The magic's in the hole!

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.