This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A mecca for India's Jains.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

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

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

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