San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
The Chapel of Jimmy Ray
An artist's suburban abode looks like an architectural fever dream.
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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
An artist's suburban abode looks like an architectural fever dream.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
Muraglione, Italy
Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.
Castellana Grotte, Italy
The sunlight passing through the opening of this huge cave system creates a magical effect.
London, England
No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.
York, England
A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Tequisquiapan, Mexico
This detailed miniature model covers all aspects of life in a small Mexican village.
Surrey, British Columbia
A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.
Atherton, Australia
The last timber and iron Chinese temple in Australia.
Ararat, Australia
Plastic pups and their colorful homes greet travelers on this otherwise ordinary Australian street.
Macquarie, Australia
This roadside attraction became locally famous for its unintentionally phallic shape.
Tailem Bend, Australia
This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.
Matera, Italy
An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.
Mexico City, Mexico
This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Zermatt, Switzerland
One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.
Piombino, Italy
An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
Zacatecas, Mexico
This grand yet little-visited tomb seems almost carved into the hill it sits on.
Tagish, Yukon
The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.