Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

The most unusual block in Brasília.

The world's largest bicycle shelter can hold more than 12,500 two-wheelers.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

This bridge's unique architecture honors nautical heritage and encourages self-awareness.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

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

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

The closed and crumbling Francoist luxury resort for workers is still full of life—for now.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.