Montreal, Québec
Notre Dame Basilica
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
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Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Chippewa Bay, New York
This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.
Wellesley Island, New York
This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.
Zavikon Island, Ontario
The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.
Alexandria Bay, New York
A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.
Costa Rica
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Gothenburg, Sweden
The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.
Helsingør, Denmark
Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Lourdes, France
Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.
Nikko, Japan
Is this cat asleep or just pretending?
Nikko, Japan
These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.
Nikko, Japan
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Ubud, Indonesia
Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.
Kediri, Indonesia
Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.
Baturiti, Indonesia
This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.
Abang, Indonesia
Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.
Tosari, Indonesia
Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.
Magelang, Indonesia
Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Norton, Kansas
A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.