Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

A stunning medieval castle owned and restored by the famed actor Jeremy Irons.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

Explore the subjective dream of a hotel.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.