Rome, Italy
Zuccari Palace
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
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Rome, Italy
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
Lilburn, Georgia
This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.
Bailey, Colorado
This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.
Erfurt, Germany
This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.
Lake and Peninsula, Alaska
The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.
Qeshm, Iran
One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.
Sana'a, Yemen
Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.
Qobustan, Azerbaijan
Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
Modena, Italy
This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
Syracuse, New York
This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.
Xuân Trạch, Vietnam
World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.
Qaradagh, Azerbaijan
Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.
Howrah, India
A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Bandiagara, Mali
These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Nördlingen, Germany
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
Masuleh, Iran
In this tiny Iranian town playing on the roof isn't just encouraged, it's the only place to go.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.
Kazan, Russia
This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.