Architectural Oddities

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The ship that got left behind.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

The Rozenberg wind wall in South Holland makes for smooth sailing through the Calandbrug canal.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."