Architectural Oddities

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

This wooden home was built in West Virginia by a Scottish immigrant before being moved to an Israeli winery.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.