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

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Known as the "Stairway to Heaven," this historic canal dates back to the 1700s.

Scotland still bears an enormous scar of its Roman past.

The gravestones in this historic cemetery are carved with mysterious faces.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.