Hayakawa, Japan
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
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Hayakawa, Japan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
Fairport Harbor, Ohio
The charming collection celebrates a small Ohio village's Finnish roots.
Kent, Ohio
This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.
East Cleveland, Ohio
This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.
Cleveland, Ohio
The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.
Cleveland, Ohio
Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Dawson City, Yukon
A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.
Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
The final resting place of one of Italy’s most influential and imaginative writers.
New York, New York
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.
Hamburg, Germany
A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
Derby, Vermont
This unusual building straddles two countries.
Prince, West Virginia
In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.
Guatape, Colombia
The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.
Algarrobo, Chile
A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.
Ilulissat, Greenland
A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.
Kirkland, Washington
A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.
Walker, Louisiana
World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Lilburn, Georgia
This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
New York, New York
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.