A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

An Anatolian immigrant created his own little paradise in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, made possible by the tensions of the Cold War.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

Tatsuo Miyajima shares a philosophical appreciation for life with the latest human technologies.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

One of Hawaiʻi’s most notable historic petroglyph fields lies within a major resort.

From a 1930s bathing beach to a 1970s dumping ground, this stretch of Buenos Aires is now its largest and wildest reserve.

A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

The highest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world.

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

These red and black houses were awarded to the firefighters who saved their city from an enormous blaze.

The abandoned remains of this once-thriving hotel looms over the city, awaiting an uncertain future.

On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Virgin Islands from the top of this observation tower built in the 1960s.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

At this studio, musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on Puerto Rico's musical traditions.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.