New York, New York
Mmuseumm
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
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New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
A set of 13th and 14th century standardized bread measures.
Hi Vista, California
The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.
Astoria, Oregon
The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.
Pristina, Kosovo
The sculpture of a man sitting in the middle of the square holds great significance for the young nation of Kosovo.
Shimonoseki, Japan
One of the world’s few undersea pedestrian tunnels connects Honshu and Kyushu islands.
Platteville, Wisconsin
How a friendly mining-school rivalry, two adventurous students, and 400 tons of limestone created a Platteville landmark.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
It is the oldest remaining stairway William Penn created to give Philadelphia citizens access to the port area.
Ferrara, Italy
A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.
Socuéllamos, Spain
This La Mancha museum brings the region’s winemaking tradition to life
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Ronda, Spain
Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.
Madrid, Spain
The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.
Mito, Japan
This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.
Glasgow, Scotland
Water-themed sculptures guard this unusually square structure.
Kingsburg, California
A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.
Sunnyvale, California
A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.
Holmdel, New Jersey
This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.
Varginha, Brazil
This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.
Rochester, Minnesota
This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.