This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

An allegorical statue of a giant pregnant woman representing justice and truth.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

Temple of a million beers.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This sanctuary is home to donkeys who finally get to rest after a life of toil.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

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

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

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

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.