Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.