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 
He Built a 1,100-Ton Love Shrine By Himself
A one-man Florida fortress carved from coral rock, moved at night, balanced so perfectly a kid can swing the gate with a finger - and he swore it was 'magnetic'.Read More 
That Underground City With The Rolling Stone Doors
There is a cliff-town under Cappadocia that you can literally bolt shut from the inside with millstone doors and I adore the theatricality of it.Read More 
Djenne's Mosque Gets Smothered In Mud
Once a year the whole town dresses down, mixes a ridiculous amount of adobe, and plaster-bakes the world's largest mudbrick building.Read More 