Oslo, Norway
St. Hallvard's Church and Monastery
The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.
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Oslo, Norway
The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.
Coquimbo, Chile
A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.
Cincinnati, Ohio
A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.
Goseck, Germany
A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.
Ayr, Scotland
This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.
Munich, Germany
A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.
Munich, Germany
The telescope that discovered Neptune.
Cincinnati, Ohio
This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."
Cincinnati, Ohio
Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.
Aba, China
Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.
Ziyang, China
Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.
Tianshui, China
Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.
Zhangye Shi, China
Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.
Chesterfield, England
This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.
Kharkiv, Ukraine
It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.
Stockholm, Sweden
A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.
Stockholm, Sweden
It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.
Forest Grove, Montana
A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.