Sauget, Illinois
National Building Arts Center
In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.
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Sauget, Illinois
In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.
Tampa, Florida
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
South Salem, New York
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
Løkken, Denmark
An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
Urubamba, Peru
Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Paro, Bhutan
The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.
Roccascalegna, Italy
This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.
Haspra, Ukraine
A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.
Agion Oros, Greece
The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Güejar Sierra, Spain
This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Trace the history of the nation’s early days at the site of America’s oldest stock exchange.
Carlow, Ireland
Curated by a small staff of veterans, the Carlow Military Museum valiantly provides a personal perspective on over 800 years of Irish history.
County Wicklow, Ireland
Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.
Killeshin, Ireland
An elaborate Romanesque archway, built right before the British occupation of Ireland.
Carlow, Ireland
The remains of a 13th-century Norman fortress, largely destroyed by an explosive renovation.
Carlow, Ireland
This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.
Carlow, Ireland
Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.