Architecture

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.