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A botanical garden full of thought-provoking contemporary sculptures.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."