The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Temple of a million beers.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.