Architectural Oddities

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

An electrical pylon under whose legs a normal gauge train can run.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.