Cayce, South Carolina
Guignard Brick Works
A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.
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Cayce, South Carolina
A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.
Sasaguri, Japan
A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.
Thành phố Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam
Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.
Varanasi, India
A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.
Aachen, Germany
A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.
Iglesias, Italy
A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.
Boulder City, Nevada
A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.
Chisinau, Moldova
Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.
Lesotho
An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.
Okarche, Oklahoma
Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Past the hills and beyond the graveyard, this church feels extremely out of place.
Vilnius, Lithuania
A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.
Palm Springs, California
Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.
Irvington, New York
This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.
Encampment, Wyoming
Features unique photographic collections by women of the American West and historical attractions such as a two-story outhouse.
Sakawa, Japan
Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.
Brooklyn, New York
What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.
Rutherford, New Jersey
Originally built in 1869, this castle is currently part of Felician University's campus.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.
New York, New York
Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.