Architectural Oddities

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.