Architectural Oddities

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A man's home is his castle.