This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."