A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.