Architectural Oddities

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.