Towers

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.