A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.