Places oldarchitecture Wants to Go

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This Gothic-style church is reputedly built atop the remains of one of Jesus's apostles.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.