Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.