Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

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

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.