One of the finest surviving Irish tower houses, with 17th-century cannonball scars still lodged in the wall above the entrance.

It's a memorial to the beloved, ugly carpet that adorned the Portland airport (PDX) for 30 years.

When the water level in the Danube in central Budapest is low enough, there is a secret site telling the history of one of the most iconic bridges of the city.

This museum seems tiny but is absolutely packed full of regional history.

Massive industrial-chic coffee shop housed in former 1970s-era Bank of Guam building.

The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.

Raised catwalk walk through the trees alongside a river starting from an abandoned and colorful pumping station.

A monumental palace that began as a stock exchange, became the headquarters of Hungarian Television, and spent years largely unused.

Hidden under a shopping centre is the genesis of modern Liverpool.

This figure was carved in the likeness of a voyeur, so that every time he spied across the street, he would find only himself staring back.

There are over 12,000 Buddha statues at this temple complex that has been mistakenly labeled a monastery.

Remainders of the defenses established at the start of the previous era in Thai history

These "antimonuments" confront the Mexican authorities by memorializing the most troubling events in the country's modern history.

Hidden on top of a ferry terminal is a nifty statue of three dolphins, and one of Hong Kong's best sunset viewpoints.

The official portrait of California's longest-serving governor has been likened to "spilled ketchup and soy sauce"

Holy relic of a girl in communion attire inside the cathedral of Guadalajara

A statue of Granada's self-proclaimed "King of the Gypsies"

A short walk up a small hill provides spectacular sunset and nighttime views of Kowloon

A smiling guardian couple stands beside a department store, carrying folk belief into modern Shibuya

A humble monument outside a metro station to the greatest bullfighter in history

High above one of Madrid's busiest streets, a woman nobody can identify has been watching passersby for nearly a century

A stubborn Ottoman tower with a punishing climb and a view over Eger

A Brutalist architectural gem hidden among Skopje’s neoclassical buildings.

A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.