London, England
Michael Faraday Memorial
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
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London, England
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Tokyo, Japan
The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.
Shanghai, China
Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.
Melilla, Spain
A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
Heimaey, Iceland
A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.
Iceland
Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Ardales, Spain
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Carnegie, Pennsylvania
Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.
Montreal, Québec
This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.
Júzcar, Spain
This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.
Shanghai, China
The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.
Sweden
Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.
Turin, Italy
Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.
Bergen, Norway
Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.
Al Lahoun, Egypt
It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.
Langkawi, Malaysia
This dangerous-looking suspension bridge may have been too unstable to remain open.
Gadmen, Switzerland
This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.
Hamburg, Germany
This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.