This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

After it was swallowed by a Georgian mansion, this medieval castle remained forgotten for centuries.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.