Places oldarchitecture Wants to Go

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

One of the earliest relics of Italian art is this ornately equipped stone soldier.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

Be careful not to get trampled at this lively two thousand-year-old market.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.