Architecture

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.