There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.