Taipei, Taiwan
Rixing Type Foundry
Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.
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Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.
Vatican City
A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Toronto, Ontario
A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.
Seattle, Washington
An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.
Bellingham, Washington
An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.
Miami, Florida
The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.
Redmond, Washington
This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.
Tortosa, Spain
These ruins are all that remain of Tortosa’s lost coal gas manufacturing industry.
Bellvue, Colorado
The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Herzberg am Harz, Germany
What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.
Buffalo, New York
A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
Los Angeles, California
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
Forks, Washington
A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.
Paris, France
A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.
Naftah, Tunisia
Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.
Matmatat-Al-Qadimal, Tunisia
The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.
Padua, Italy
Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."
Peterborough, England
The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.
Mexico City, Mexico
A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.
Istanbul, Turkey
This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.