Alameda, California
Alameda Spite House
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Alameda, California
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
Boston, Massachusetts
Narrowest house in Boston.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.
Seattle, Washington
This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Newbury, Massachusetts
This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.
Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.
Nashville, Tennessee
The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.
Syracuse, Italy
Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.
Thimphu, Bhutan
Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.
Chittorgarh, India
A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.
Hartford, Connecticut
A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.
Stoke Heath, England
A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.
Gwynedd, Wales
The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.
Seattle, Washington
This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.
Kaiteriteri, New Zealand
This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.
Elmhurst, Illinois
A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.
Poni, Burkina Faso
These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.
Portland, Oregon
Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.
Fort Washington, Maryland
A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.
Athens, Greece
The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.
Rome, Italy
An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.
East Molesey, England
The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.
Chicago, Illinois
The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.