London, England
The Barbican Estate
This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.
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London, England
This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.
Nashville, Tennessee
An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.
Higashimurayama, Japan
Considered the oldest intact wooden structure in Tokyo Prefecture, this impressive temple was built in 1407.
Escomb, England
A 7th-century church in northeast England built using stones from a nearby Roman fort.
Nambu, Japan
Scale the heights of this 100-foot play space shaped like a ferocious dragon.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.
Ararat, Australia
Now a museum, this was once a prison facility and a hospital for the “criminally insane.”
Tayma, Saudi Arabia
In the Arabian Desert, a surreal rock formation stands cut clean in half.
Dortmund, Germany
Former Gestapo prison turned memorial museum.
Tehran, Iran
Iran's "Rose Garden Palace," built during 131 years of rule by Qajar kings, consists of 17 stunning structures.
Nishiki, Japan
Secret tunnels leading to underground facilities lurk near the remains of a World War II-era Japanese Navy airbase.
La Rochelle, France
No one knows the story behind the mysterious feline perched on this rooftop.
Isle of Whithorn, Scotland
This medieval pilgrimage site was a key part of the early Christian missionary work in Scotland.
Kapolei, Hawaii
One of Oahu’s best snorkeling and diving spots was created by warm water discharged from the nearby power plant.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.
Corfu, Greece
A spectacular Neoclassical palace is home more than 15,000 artifacts and works of art.
Fukuoka, Japan
A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.
Kaunas, Lithuania
An open-air art gallery that aims to share the stories of the people who live around it.
Dumfries, Scotland
After playing in this house and its gardens as a child, J.M. Barrie credited it for helping inspire the story of Peter Pan.
Jaén, Spain
For centuries, the largest Arab bathhouse in Spain was hidden under a palace.
Ko Samui, Thailand
This natural rock formation has an anatomical aesthetic.
Brooklyn, New York
Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.
Vientiane, Laos
The site of an ancient city pillar that was lost and rediscovered.