This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.