Architecture

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

This ancient burial mound is accessed by an impressive Greek-built archway.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.