This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

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

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.