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This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

Inside a grand Victorian-era carriage house is the oldest automobile collection in the United States.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.