Naoshima, Japan
Bennesse Art Site Naoshima
A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.
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Naoshima, Japan
A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.
Takehara, Japan
Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
Manchester, England
A Victorian-era British railway viaduct has been transformed into an elevated garden.
Manchester, England
This statue of an everyday cleaning tool sits proud upon a plinth in Manchester's coolest quarter.
Manchester, England
A Victorian synagogue-turned-museum chronicles centuries of Jewish life.
Manchester, England
This bronze statue honors one of the leaders of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom.
Manchester, England
This building's name and a plaque are all that's left of what was probably the most important nightclub of the Madchester music scene.
Manchester, England
One of the trees in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is actually a World War II memorial, and it's made of metal.
Manchester, England
Two of Manchester’s oldest buildings were moved twice.
Manchester, England
One of Manchester’s museums has gathered and preserved British political paraphernalia covering over 200 years.
Manchester, England
When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.
Manchester, England
Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.
Manchester, England
Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.
Manchester, England
Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.
Manchester, England
The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.
Manchester, England
Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.
Manchester, England
A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.
Manchester, England
This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842
Nottingham, England
A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
Warsaw, Poland
This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.
Warsaw, Poland
An artificial date palm stands as a memorial to Warsaw's Jewish community.
Warsaw, Poland
A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.