An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

The now-public home of a renowned art collector is full of unique pieces from viceregal and 19th-century Mexico.

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

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

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

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.