Panama City, Panama
The Afro-Antillean Museum
The Afro-Caribbean workers who constructed the Panama Canal built this church-turned-museum in their spare time.
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Panama City, Panama
The Afro-Caribbean workers who constructed the Panama Canal built this church-turned-museum in their spare time.
Chantilly, Virginia
The parking lot of a northern Virginia shopping center is host to a monument to Korea’s greatest naval commander, to include a scale model replica of the Turtle Boat he made famous.
Kimba, Australia
A pink giant of fibreglass and metal watching the Eyre Highway from a rural roadside
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.
Hastings, Nebraska
The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.
Lahore, Pakistan
The beautifully tiled, hidden resting place of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s wet nurse, tucked away behind a bustling railway track.
Alar del Rey, Spain
This is not a heritage railway, but when the new high speed line fully opens in 2032, at least part of this magnificent and historic line should be preserved.
Oslo, Norway
A small Oslo museum dedicated to failed products, bad ideas, overhyped inventions, and the strange lessons hidden inside them.
Baltimore, Maryland
An antiquarian horologist’s mysterious home in Old Goucher.
Pahrump, Nevada
Collapsed charcoal kilns in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.
San Francisco, California
A historic office and commercial building located in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
Vincennes, Indiana
The museum displays the life work of the great clown spanning a career of 70 years in movies, television, radio and his paintings.
Stockholm, Sweden
It's a breathing museum, where you get to breathe along with stunning immersive textile light art.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
In a quiet neighborhood in the south of Berlin is one of the most ambitious social housing experiments of the 20th century.
New York, New York
Picture yourself in history with this working collection of vintage photobooths.
Peshtera, Bulgaria
A small, but very well curated, museum of cars, propaganda, and toys of socialist Bulgaria.
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein's royal family calls this medieval alpine castle home.
Ocklawaha, Florida
Site of the longest gun battle in FBI history.
Wrocław, Poland
An early 20th-century school building whose clock tower and carved symbols quietly tell the story of the trades once taught inside.
California
An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.
Panamá City, Panama
A museum celebrating mola textiles, the intricate art of the Guna people of Panama.
Bochum, Germany
The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.
Scotland
A folly hidden in the woods that once became home to a cowherd.