This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.