If you've spent time noodling on Atlas Obscura, you'll notice that we have some themes.

One thing we tend to love is giant stuff.

Anything that fits under the category of world's largest blank, we also love huge, weird

rock formations and enormous sculptures out in the middle of the desert, huge monuments.

There's one kind of story about big things, about huge buildings and structures that we like

maybe the most. It's when those giant things have to move, like literally be taken somewhere new

on their own crazy journey, things that really seem like they should not be able to be moved.

So that is what we are bringing you today. Two stories from our places editors, Jonathan

Kerry and Michelle Cassidy about moving the impossible, moving something that was never,

ever meant to be moved. And so we are going to tell you about how they were taken from country to

country and from imminent doom to safety. So with that in mind, take it away, Jonathan.

I spent a few years living in the mountain ranges of Shenandoah.

I was always fascinated by the wide low trucks that roam the region's two lane highways.

I mean, some of these trucks carry a military or construction equipment, but every so often,

I would spot a truck moving an entire house. And that like always blew my mind.

Moving a whole house on the back of a truck, especially down these very, very small highways.

Well, recently, an Atlas of Scare entry landed in my inbox that pushed those wide low trucks

to shame. It was the story of an entire church that was built in Paris and then the entire thing

moved to Athens, Greece. And the whole story begins with an assassination attempt.

Back in 1898, the King of Greece was a guy named King George I.

And during his first few years as a king, this dude was pretty popular. I mean,

Greece expanded its territories and economy was doing extremely well. But then

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