Montegabbione (TR), Italy
La Scarzuola
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
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Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Ronda, Spain
Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Berlin, Germany
Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."
New York, New York
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Naucalpan, Mexico
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Aksaray, Turkey
In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.