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Bude Castle in Bude, United Kingdom
This "castle" was actually the home of Victorian inventor Sir Goldsworthy Gurney.Built in 1830 for Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, this two-story house is both picturesque and irregular, complete with...
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Palacio Salvo in Montevideo, Uruguay
Inaugurated in 1928, Palacio Salvo appeared in the city landscape as a strange creature, one that has both delighted and disgusted architecture buffs for decades.Designed by the italian architect Mario...
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House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin
During the 1940's, a man named Alex Jordan discovered a 60-foot chimney of rock in the beautiful Wyoming Valley - it was here he decided to build a house on the sandstone formation called Deer Shelter...
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Fujinomiya Mermaid Mummy in Fujinomiya, Japan
With an elaborate origin story going back a century and a half, the hideous mermaid at Fujinomiya may be the oldest of its kind.According to the story, the mermaid first appeared to Prince Shotoku at...
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Hanging Temple of Hengshan in Shanxi, China
The Hanging Temple, located about 60 km southwest of Datong, China in Shanxi province, is one of the world's forgotten wonders. Clinging to a crag of Hengshan mountain, in apparent defiance of gravity,...
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Pedro Martín Ureta's Forest Guitar in Argentina
Breaking up the flat agricultural areas of Argentina's Pampas is a guitar formed entirely out of trees. Stretching for 2/3 of a mile, the multi-colored instrument was created by one Argentine farmer to...
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Marineland Melanesia in Green Island, Australia
The Marineland Melanesia crocodile habitat has 50 crocodiles dwelling on idyllic Green Island on the Barrier Reef, from those just hatched to the unrivaled colossal Cassius, the biggest crocodile in...
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Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center opened in 1931 with a comprehensive mental health campus that was the largest of its time, including a farm, post office, power plant, courts, and even a fire department...
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Troublesome Creek in Troublesome Creek, Kentucky
Sometime around 1820, a French orphan named Martin Fugate, carrier of an incredibly rare recessive gene for a disease known as hereditary methemoglobinemia, settled on the banks of Troublesome Creek in...
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The Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, Romania
When someone dies, their memory generally enters a kind of idealized state in the minds of those who loved them. Their flaws are forgiven and forgotten, and the way in which they passed (especially if...
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Dom Museum's Kunst und Wunderkammer in Salzburg, Austria
The Dom Museum’s Kunst und Wunderkammer is the lovingly recreated and restored collection once belonging to the Archbishop Wolf Dietrich.Wolf Dietrich was an extremely rich and powerful man with a...
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Musgrave Museum in Eastbourne, United Kingdom
In 1983 George Musgrave opened a museum dedicated to showcasing the life and times of... George Musgrave.Narcissistic? Egotistical? Perhaps. On the other hand, the fact that Musgrave had the energy and...
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Cape Pillar Sea Cliffs in Tasman Island, Australia
Located on the aptly named Desolation Island, the Cape Pillar sea cliffs are as intimidating as the island it stands on. It holds the record for the world's tallest sea cliffs on the southern...
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Insectarium of Montreal in Montreal, Canada
Founded by Georges Brossard, an enthusiast entomologist, the Insectarium of Montreal displays both live and dead insect collections, and has over 160,000 specimens. The Insectarium has its own anthill,...
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Eternal Flame Falls in Orchard Park, New York
All you need is a pair of hiking boots and a lighter to find out how the Eternal Flame Falls got its name.At the heart of this waterfall is a small flickering flame that is caused by a natural gas...
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Merchant's House Museum in New York, New York
The house at 29 East 4th Street was home to the Tredwell family and their servants for nearly 100 years. Now, over 75 years since the last of the Tredwells vacated, the house remains virtually...
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San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum in Venice, Italy
Known as the "Island of the Mad," for 250 years the Island of San Servolo was the official mental asylum of Venice. Run by the religious order San Giovanni di Dio, the asylum opened in 1725 with the...
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Mushroom House of Rochester in Pittsford, New York
An organic architectural gem in an unexpected place exists right outside of Pittsford.Newcomers to Powder Mills Park in Perinton, which is part of Pittsford, which is a suburb of Rochester, New York...
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Whittingham Hospital in Preston, England
Opened in 1873, this mental asylum was known for pioneering the use of electroencephalograms, or EEGs, a diagnostic device that measures electrical impulses along the scalp.Eventually, World War I and...
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Danvers Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Danvers, Massachusetts
Danvers State Hospital for the Criminally Insane opened in 1878 to serve some 600 mental patients under its imposing gothic spires. While it was built with a surprisingly caring and modern attitude...
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