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Recovered Nemi Ship.

Nemi, Italy

Nemi Ships

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

The gallery of maps, showing the ceiling

Vatican City

Gallery of Maps - Galleria delle Carte Geografiche

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Le Chêne Chapelle (The Chapel Oak)

Allouville-Bellefosse, France

Le Chêne Chapelle (The Chapel Oak)

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Close-up of a dragon head at Maison de la Magie

Blois, France

Mechanical Dragon Clock

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Pyramid of Cestius.

Rome, Italy

Pyramid of Cestius

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The oval reading room at the Bibliothèque nationale.

Paris, France

Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Seward Street Slides

San Francisco, California

Seward Street Slides

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The Wave Organ, San Francisco Bay

San Francisco, California

The Wave Organ

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Main entrance to the Exploratorium at Pier 15

San Francisco, California

Exploratorium

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Speciality shop in scientific and pharmaceutical objects.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nieuwe Spiegelstraat

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Illustration of the Leviathan of Parsonstown (Rosse Six-Foot Telescope).

Offaly, Ireland

Leviathan of Parsonstown

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

Brigit's Celtic Garden

Galway, Ireland

Brigit's Celtic Garden

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Forestiere Underground Gardens, Fresno, CA, 7/13/2019

Fresno, California

Forestiere Underground Gardens

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

 Evionnaz Adventure Labyrinth

Evionnaz, Switzerland

Evionnaz Adventure Labyrinth

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

Toad automaton.

Bourton-on-the-Water, England

Dragonfly Maze

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

Bedford Limestone Pyramid
Permanently Closed

Bedford, Indiana

Bedford Limestone Pyramid

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

"Around the Corner" University of Southern Indiana, New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, IN, 2003.
Permanently Closed

Evansville, Indiana

The Nest Houses of Patrick Dougherty

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

The facade of the church, still under construction.

Barcelona, Spain

Sagrada Família

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A white stork in its nest atop one of the incomplete spires, 5 Mar. 2011

Mejorada del Campo, Spain

Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

Gobekli Tepe

Örencik, Turkey

Gobekli Tepe

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

Musée des Plans-Reliefs

Paris, France

Musée des Plans-Reliefs

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

122 Rue de Provence in September 2022.

Paris, France

The One-Two-Two

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

La Piscine museum in Roubaix.

Roubaix, France

La Piscine

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

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