One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

No one seems to know who suffered the disappointment at this particular place.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This quiet bird sanctuary on the Danish coast is home to something not usually found in a conservation area: hunters' cabins.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.