This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Berlin's old airport.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.