Vilnius, Lithuania
Lukiškės Prison
A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.
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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.
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Past the hills and beyond the graveyard, this church feels extremely out of place.
Okarche, Oklahoma
Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.
Lesotho
An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.
Chisinau, Moldova
Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.
Tokyo, Japan
Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.
Mexico City, Mexico
This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.
Viskafors, Sweden
A flock of peculiar-colored sheep graze in this small Swedish town.
Iglesias, Italy
A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.
Varanasi, India
A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.
Thành phố Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam
Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.
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.
Townville, South Carolina
A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.
Nuremberg, Germany
A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.
Nazaré, Portugal
A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.
Stahlstown, Pennsylvania
A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.
Frankfurt, Germany
Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.
St. John's, Isle of Man
Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.
St. Augustine, Florida
The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.