Architecture

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

This quirky Korean eatery is built to resemble an equally quirky vintage camera.