Saugerties, New York
Opus 40
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
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Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Coquimbo, Chile
A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.
Gudhjem, Denmark
The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.
San Martino Al Cimino, Italy
This medieval Italian village was transformed into an architectural marvel by the famous "Papessa" Donna Olimpia.
Richmond, Virginia
The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Bankhead, Alberta
The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.
Delaware City, Delaware
A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.
Bang Muang Mai, Thailand
This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.
Panaji, India
This colorful colonial neighborhood in Panjim is one of the only Latin Quarters in Asia.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
Inyo County, California
This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
Al Haouz, Morocco
The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.
La Falda, Argentina
This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.
Frankfurt, Germany
From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.
Flagler Beach, Florida
The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.
Palm Coast, Florida
A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
St. Augustine, Florida
It's a pretty creepy lock-up.
Palermo, Italy
Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.