Places Edited by mikermnz

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

After several weeks of radio silence, this abandoned oil tanker washed up on a remote beach in Liberia.

This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

These are probably the most beautifully crafted toilets you've ever seen.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

The beehive-like buildings of this abandoned resort reside near the border of Mauritania and Senegal.

In the 1930s, a mysterious murder shook this Northamptonshire village–the identity of the victim remains a mystery to this day.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

Experience this Iron Age village the way that its original residents would have.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

This grand memorial remembers the 20 members of the Los Angeles Times killed when the office was bombed.

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.