This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland's second largest island emit an entrancing sound.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.