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Architectural Oddities

Hakone Open-Air Museum

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Whaley House

San Diego, California

Whaley House

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

This is the right side of the complex. From here you can see one of the few remaining structures and for some reason a city bus.

Chatsworth, California

LA-88 Nike Missile Site

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden - Maple Hall Courtyard.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Beer Can House

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Magic Garden

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Las Pozas

Xilitla, Mexico

Las Pozas

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

(Audium press photo)

San Francisco, California

Audium Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Kintai Bridge. (Ken Spink/Atlas Obscura)

Kintai Bridge

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

New York, New York

Jeffrey's Hook Light

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns. (matthigh/Flickr)

Death Valley, California

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Prelinger Library

San Francisco, California

Prelinger Library

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Catacombs of San Gennaro.

Catacombs of San Gennaro

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Ruins of a Victorian folly in Sydenham Hill Woods, London, UK. (Mark Bowler/Atlas Obscura)

London, England

Ruined Victorian Folly

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

La Cité, Carcassonne

Carcassonne, France

La Cité Médiévale de Carcassonne

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Washington, D.C.

National Capitol Columns

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (ncindc/Flickr)

Washington, D.C.

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

Permanently Closed

Al Qardahah, Syria

Tomb of Hafez al-Assad

Three members of Syria's ruling family entombed in quiet mountain town.