Architectural Oddities

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

One of the few guarded stops along the great spice route.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Last remaining nuclear missile base in Ukraine.

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

Underwater roads undetectable from the surface used for escape routes from foreign invaders.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.