Mission Viejo, California
Oso Creek Fairy Trail
This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.
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Mission Viejo, California
This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.
Laguna Beach, California
This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
Paris, France
Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.
Paris, France
A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.
Paris, France
The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.
Paris, France
The final resting place of the "father of special effects."
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.
Whatstandwell, England
Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.
Town End, England
A collection of early 19th century trams set in a reconstructed period village.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Tirana, Albania
Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
New York, New York
This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.
New York, New York
A notorious punk house turned co-op.
New York, New York
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
New York, New York
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
New York, New York
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?