Montegabbione (TR), Italy
La Scarzuola
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
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Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Viterbo, Italy
This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Reggello, Italy
On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
Stra, Italy
A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt
An endless sea of white conical domes.
Belvedere Tiburon, California
An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.
Belvedere Tiburon, California
Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.
London, England
Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.
Titulcia, Spain
Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.
Olvera, Spain
Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.
Argelaguer, Spain
Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.
Castellfollit de la Roca, Spain
Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.
Òrrius, Spain
A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.
Sant Quirze Safaja, Spain
An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.
Los Angeles, California
A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.
Los Angeles, California
Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.