Naucalpan, Mexico
El Nido de Quetzalcóatl
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
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Naucalpan, Mexico
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Plougrescant, France
A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.
London, England
The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.
London, England
What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.
Câmpina, Romania
This eccentric folly house was designed by Romanian thinker Bogdan-Petriceicu Hasdeu, with a helping hand from his deceased daughter's spirit.
Leominster, Massachusetts
This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.
Sterling, Massachusetts
This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Just a few graves remain in this neighborhood that was once a cemetery for foreigners.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.
Princeton, Massachusetts
This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.
Princeton, Massachusetts
The haunting history of a little girl lost.
Barre, Massachusetts
Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Telega, Romania
This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."
Guelph, Ontario
An abandoned Ontario prison turned over to time and nature.
Scotland
A folly hidden in the woods that once became home to a cowherd.
Velha Goa, India
All that remains of a 16th-century Jesuit school is this carved, worn gate.
Raeford, North Carolina
This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.
New York, New York
You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.
New York, New York
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
New York, New York
Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.
New York, New York
From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
Bristol, Connecticut
Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.