Vilanova de Sau, Spain
Sant Romà de Sau
A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.
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Vilanova de Sau, Spain
A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.
Schnals, Italy
Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.
Uribante, Venezuela
A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.
Catarman, Philippines
A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Zaandam, Netherlands
Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Jaipur, India
The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.
Jaipur, India
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
Granite Falls, Washington
Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Aurangabad, India
Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.