San Juan County, Utah
House on Fire Ruin
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
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San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Crestone, Colorado
Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.
Tallinn, Estonia
A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.
Stockholm, Sweden
A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.
Stockholm, Sweden
A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.
Gémenos, France
A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.
Théoule-sur-Mer, France
Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.
Civrieux-d'Azergues, France
The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.
Saint Austell, England
400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Paris, France
This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.
Tonnerre, France
This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.
Saint-Pierre-Colamine, France
A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Paris, France
This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Paris, France
The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.