The House That Ate a China Shop (In the Best Way)
There is a tiny French house literally mosaicked from other people's broken plates by one obsessive man and I go there in my brain when life needs a weird hug.Read More 
That Bulgarian Flying Saucer They Properly Abandoned
They built a communist saucer on a mountain, covered it in mosaics, and then left it to rot like a bureaucratic afterthought.Read More 
The Church Carved From Salt (Yes, Really)
Down beneath Krakow miners carved an entire chapel out of rock salt - altars, chandeliers and all - which is both impolite to lick and unfathomably splendid.Read More 
That Cathedral With Giant Stone Scissors
Wells Cathedral shoved a pair of massive stone 'scissors' into its nave in the 14th century to stop the tower falling through the roof and it still looks gobsmacking.Read More 
Tokyo's Replaceable Flats That Never Got Replaced
A 1972 Tokyo tower of 140 prefabricated 'capsules' was supposed to be swapped out like appliances - but the future forgot to turn up.Read More 
The Cliffhanger Monastery
Xuankong perches on a Chinese cliff on long oak beams, blends three religions and achieves architectural cheekiness older than your aunt's manners.Read More 
This House Kept Building, Honestly
A rich widow spent 38 years adding rooms, stairs to nowhere and doors that open into blank walls because a medium told her spirits were fussy and wouldn't leave her alone.Read More 
When a Church Decided Bones Were Decorative
In a Czech chapel a 19th century woodcarver rearranged some 40,000 skeletons into chandeliers, coats of arms and a most unsettling sense of taste.Read More 
The Church That Beats Pisa At Leaning
A medieval church in tiny Suurhusen leans more than the Tower of Pisa because it was built on marshy ground and oak piles that quietly gave up the ghost.Read More 
Rome's Trash Mountain Is Literally Olive Jars
There is a real hill in Rome made almost entirely of broken olive-oil jars and it is the most respectful landfill you'll ever visit.Read More 