This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Home of the "true" equator.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the earth's surface.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.