Hyattsville, Maryland
Vanadu Art House
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.
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Hyattsville, Maryland
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.
Kingman, Arizona
Don't blink or you'll miss it.
Västerås, Sweden
A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.
Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.
São Paulo, Brazil
A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.
Great Falls, Montana
"Polynesia on the Plains."
Helena, Montana
Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Jersey City, New Jersey
A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.
Vineland, New Jersey
This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.
Sandyston, New Jersey
Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Sudogda, Russia
Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Chartres, France
A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.
Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico
Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.
La Pobla de Lillet, Spain
Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.