Riga, Latvia
Remembrance Memorial to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation
With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.
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Riga, Latvia
With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.
Hudson, Massachusetts
One of the smallest churches in the United States is located along the side of the road in a residential neighborhood.
Belgrade, Serbia
Arguably Belgrade's only example of pure Art Deco architecture.
Alderson, West Virginia
The lasting remains of a historic spa.
Zapotitlán Salinas, Mexico
The tomb of a pre-Hispanic governor, inside the vestiges of a Mesoamerican city.
Rock Springs, Wyoming
A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.
Lennel, Scotland
This Norman church survived the Reformation before suffering 300 years of neglect.
Sulphur Springs, Arkansas
These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.
Kayseri, Turkey
A giant replica of an Assyrian cuneiform tablet stands in the middle of a busy intersection near the city center of Kayseri.
Tokyo, Japan
This atmospheric pre-war building is home to one of the few manually operated elevators left in Tokyo.
New York, New York
This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.
Attendorn, Germany
A ruined castle made famous in German movies and TV productions.
Corfu, Greece
This Greek Orthodox church houses the mummified body of St. Spyridon.
Ibros, Spain
Built thousands of years ago, this wall is still part of the urban layout of this village.
Swansea, Wales
Visit the last surviving outlet of a once popular chain of coffeeshops.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."
Loyalton, California
A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.
Riga, Latvia
A monument to the grand synagogue that stood in this space before Nazis burned it down.
San Pellegrino Terme, Italy
This lavish 20th-century casino adorns labels for San Pellegrino water.
Carbondale, Colorado
Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.
Tokyo, Japan
No one knows why this family’s graves stayed on the national museum's premises after all other tombstones were relocated.
Kuna, Idaho
A volcanic core jutting above the plain between the Snake and Boise Rivers, a marker identifies the reference point for all U.S. Government Surveys in Idaho.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.
Gardner, Massachusetts
This historic Victorian mansion is allegedly so haunted that a signed waiver is required to enter.