An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

An English brewery transported to North Korea.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A geometric jumble of homes.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.