Places oldarchitecture Wants to Go

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

This small shrine is dedicated to the designer of the first Russian fighter jet and his brother, who became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.