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Depot 62

Manchester, Vermont

Depot 62

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

Okemo Fire Tower, looking north

Ludlow, Vermont

Okemo Fire Tower

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

Bancroft Tower

Worcester, Massachusetts

Bancroft Tower

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

A helicopter landing on the roof of the Pan Am building (now Met Life building), 1966.
Permanently Closed

New York, New York

Site of the Pan Am Helipad

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

The garden inside the Ford Foundation Building

New York, New York

New York's Hidden Tropical Forest

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The Daily News Building Globe

New York, New York

The Daily News Building Globe

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

St. Vartan Cathedral in the middle of the city.

New York, New York

Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Chester Arthur Inauguration & Death House

New York, New York

Chester A. Arthur Inauguration and Death House

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building

New York, New York

Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Tin Pan Alley today

New York, New York

The Remnants of Tin Pan Alley

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

Church of the Transfiguration

New York, New York

The Little Church Around the Corner

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Atrium.

Athens, Greece

Zappeion

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

Botanical Museum of the National Garden

Athens, Greece

Botanical Museum of the National Garden

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

Syntagma Square Metro Station

Athens, Greece

Syntagma Square Metro Station

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Exterior of the church in April 2018.

Athens, Greece

Agia Dynamis

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The Interior

Athens, Greece

Little Metropolis Church

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

Kostis Palamas House

Athens, Greece

Kostis Palamas House

The home of Greece’s national poet sits crumbling in the middle of a popular tourist district.

Building damage 3.

Athens, Greece

Amalias 42

This building displays the scars of the “Dekemvriana,” a dark time in modern Greek history.

Exterior of the church.

Athens, Greece

St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

Monument of Lysicrates

Athens, Greece

Choragic Monument of Lysicrates

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

Front of church.

Athens, Greece

Church of Agios Demetrios of Diakos

This Ottoman-era church is hidden amid a busy tourist area.

Ritual of Periarosis Column

Athens, Greece

Ritual of Periarosis Column

According to legend, this ancient column contains healing properties.

Base of walls.

Athens, Greece

House of Proclus

Underneath one of the region's most historic roads lies the home of Plato's successor.

Front view.

Athens, Greece

Caves of Filopappou Hill

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

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