It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

A mecca for India's Jains.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.