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Architecture

Moscow State University

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Red Gates skyscraper

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Clermont, Florida

The Citrus Tower

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

Boston, Massachusetts

Mapparium Globe

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Detroit, Michigan

Grande Ballroom

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Spiraling Out of Control: The Greatest Spiral Stairs in the World

Dylan Thuras October 18, 2009

Abhaneri, India

Chand Baori

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

Los Angeles, California

Angelus Temple

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Glendora, California

Rubel Castle

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Permanently Closed

Casa Grande, Arizona

The Domes

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Loretto Chapel

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Piombino, Italy

Casa Saldarini

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

Berlin, Germany

Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Haw Par Villa

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Stari Most

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Alpharetta, Georgia

The Dwarf Castle

A man's home is his castle.

New York, New York

Clock Tower Building

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Cornwall, England

Dobwalls Bypass Bat Bridge

These "bridges" help confused bats cross the road.