This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.