Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A modest stone circle in North Wales.

During this yearly Welsh swimming race, competitors tread through the fetid waters of a bog trench.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.