Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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 Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

A village of art and exotic creations.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.

Grottoes, sculptures, and recycled ceramics permeate what was once just a small farm in France.

A self built castle built by a salt worker in Brazil.

Outsider Art Community.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.