Places oldarchitecture Wants to Go

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Nepal's first aviation museum found a logical home in the most unexpected place.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).