Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
Spitzhäuschen
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
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St. Joseph, Minnesota
Saint John's Abbey Church
A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.
Paris, France
Père Lachaise Cemetery
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Budapest, Hungary
Semmelweis Medical Museum
A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Partisan Memorial Cemetery
This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.
Soroca, Moldova
Gypsy Hill
Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.
London , England
Captain Bligh's Grave
The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.
London, England
The Great Bed of Ware
This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.
London, England
Replica of the Golden Hinde
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
Budapest, Hungary
Terror Háza
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
Melilla, Spain
Melilla
A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
Budapest, Hungary
Szabo Ervin Library
A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.
London, England
The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
