Fakenham, England
Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History
The last gas works in England and Wales details how people once extracted the resource from coal.
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Fakenham, England
The last gas works in England and Wales details how people once extracted the resource from coal.
New York, New York
A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.
Stockholm, Sweden
A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.
Lincolnshire, England
This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.
Sevelen, Switzerland
The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.
Nuremberg, Germany
During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.
Tokyo, Japan
The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.
Bonner Springs, Kansas
Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.
Glasgow, Scotland
A humble ancient well where Scottish knight, Sir William Wallace, took his final drink.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.
Lebanon, Tennessee
This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.
Putrajaya, Malaysia
Next to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s office stands this rose-colored mosque.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.
Athens, Greece
A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This 1836 church, constructed by formerly enslaved people, honors a leader in Afrocentric music.
Worthing, England
It was once the longest continuously running cinema in the United Kingdom.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.
Prague, Czechia
Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.
Greenwood, Mississippi
A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue
Mkhomazi Wilderness area, South Africa
Brace yourself for the slowest, scariest, most spectacular drive, down the Drakensberg Escarpment.
Brallo di Pregola, Italy
An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.