A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

A historical puzzle lies at the origins of this structure.

Depending on the region's rainfall, this church may be partially submerged.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

The site of a legendary 14th-century battle and a controversial 20th-century speech.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.