One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.