This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."