The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.