A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

Once thought to be the Garden of Eden it holds a holy footprint claimed to belong to Adam, Buddha and Shiva.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."