Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

During its heyday, the massive estate boasted its own railroad station and post office.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

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

This terrifying glass bridge on the side of a mountain cracks as you step on it.

Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.