Places oldarchitecture Wants to Go

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.

This odd little home was built right into an African rock face.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

This French "sea of rocks" is packed with stunning rock formations and its own medieval castle.

The man who is mainly remembered for a chicken dish he had nothing to do with is buried under a large concrete dome.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.