Urban Planning

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

A dictator's failed public works project has been reborn as two linked trails through spectacular scenery.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

Belfast's namesake river still winds below the city center, hidden from sight.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Locals spent years successfully fighting to save this beloved Brutalist behemoth from demolition.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.