Hong Kong
Chungking Mansions
Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.
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Hong Kong
Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.
Hong Kong
Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.
Hong Kong
This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Bucharest, Romania
The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.
New York, New York
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
New York, New York
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New York, New York
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Oslo, Norway
Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.
Copenhagen, Denmark
An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.
Villa Hayes, Paraguay
How did 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes become so beloved in Paraguay?
Asunción, Paraguay
A beautiful museum filled with thousands of chairs.
Lima, Peru
A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.
Lima, Peru
The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.
Lima, Peru
Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.
Lima, Peru
The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.
Lima, Peru
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
Lima, Peru
A market for witches is hidden within a train station.
Lima, Peru
The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.
Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.