Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.