The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.