Architecture

After a terrible drought, townspeople used wine to build this church.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

What was once the longest suspension bridge in Latin America was directly inspired by the iconic Brooklyn Bridge.

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

Traditional architecture and ancient irrigation systems are on display in this gorgeous mountain village.

A father built this one-of-a-kind house in the shape of his son's race car.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

This overgrown Victorian chapel made of corrugated metal looks utterly out of place.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A concrete Picasso in the middle of a student housing complex on the outskirts of Stockholm.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.