Murals made with millions of colorful stones adorn the abandoned building.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

This family-owned canteen has been selling goat milk ice cream since 1933.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

In the 16th century, a Franciscan monk pulled off a construction miracle by building a Roman-style aqueduct to save the town of Otumba, Mexico, from certain death.

Street names don't get more "late capitalism" than this.

The half-finished remains of what would have been Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art.

This collection of promotional calendars preserves a staple of mid-century Mexican pop art.