Vale do Sol, Brazil
House of the Lion
A living folk-art atelier where a Brazilian self-taught artist is building one of the largest lion sculptures in the world.
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Vale do Sol, Brazil
A living folk-art atelier where a Brazilian self-taught artist is building one of the largest lion sculptures in the world.
Hong Kong
26 Chinese banyan trees cling dramatically to a stone wall, overhanging the street below.
Valencia, Spain
Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.
Xian Shi, China
A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.
Dijon, France
A forgotten stone skeleton of medieval Dijon slumbers beneath the feet of unsuspecting museum visitors.
Glossop, England
Mediaeval cross marking an old Roman ridgeway on the top of moors in the Peak District.
Oka, Guam
The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.
Athens, Greece
Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The largest known adobe office building, emulating in style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.
Talavera de la Reina, Spain
For centuries, one side of this basilica has integrated local archaeological finds.
Yerevan, Armenia
Hidden 2600-year-old Urartian tomb is located in close proximity to a busy shopping mall.
Kroměříž, Czechia
A unique Baroque monument that creates a fascinating “theater of memory” focused on the themes of human transience and the hope for resurrection.
Mossel Bay, South Africa
A cave that was home to humans 160 thousand years ago.
Wellington, Florida
Honor lost loved ones at this serene wind phone hidden in an environmental preserve.
Sambhar, India
India’s largest inland salt lake, whose blinding white salt flats create one of the most surreal landscapes in the Thar Desert.
Cary, North Carolina
This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”
Gothenburg, Sweden
A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.
San Bruno, California
This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.
Singapore, Singapore
One of Singapore's oldest Indian restaurants, specialising in Southern Indian cuisine.
Mansfield, Connecticut
A 700+ seat, all-marble, classical-styled open-air amphitheater in northeast Connecticut.
Berlin, Germany
An important message and optimistic splash of color in a troubled neighborhood.
Hamburg, Germany
A suburban monument preserves the faces of twenty murdered Jewish boys and girls.
Singapore
Forgotten forts that were pivotal in Singapore’s military history.
Geneva, Florida
From an earlier era, a small community was established and was prosperous but drifted away, leaving only the bank vault behind.