Asheville, North Carolina
Peace Gardens & Market
A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.
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Asheville, North Carolina
A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.
Chicago, Illinois
Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Cleveland, Ohio
A dazzling display of lights and crystals.
Kent, Ohio
This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.
Stuttgart, Germany
An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This was once the largest four-sided clock in the world (yes, even bigger than Big Ben).
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.
Holland, Michigan
The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.
Berlin, Germany
A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.
Berlin, Germany
This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.
New Orleans, Louisiana
After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.
New Orleans, Louisiana
It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.