Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

The magic's in the hole!

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.