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Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy
The Old Striped Lighthouse of Lignano Sabbiadoro
This retired lighthouse survived demolition on one condition: it had to give up its light and stand next to its replacement.
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The color and name of a popular fruit. You won't find any citrus in this colorful collection, but it is a tasty one nonetheless.
Glasgow, Scotland
RISOTTO Studio
Mackintosh's first job? Designing drainage for a Victorian lemonade factory that's now a risograph print studio.
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Nice, France
Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas de Nice
Built for Russian aristocrats fleeing winter, this cathedral's patron—Tsar Nicholas II—never saw the revolution coming.
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Innsbruck, Austria
Südtiroler Platz 1
A Belle Époque hotel with its own power plant was bombed flat in 1944, rebuilt in orange concrete, and became an alpine icon.
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Pula, Croatia
Home of Croatian Veterans
Pula's 1913 naval ballroom outlasted the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a world war, and three countries, but the dances continue.
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Marrakech, Morocco
Jardin de la Ménara
This 12th-century basin trained Almohad soldiers to swim to Spain: and still irrigates olive groves via 900-year-old channels.
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Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre
Ukraine's oldest puppet theatre spent eight years homeless, and some of its star performers are over 80 years old.
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Seville, Spain
Jardin du Real Alcazar
Seville's Alcazar gardens began as Islamic orchards feeding the court, then morphed through six centuries into a European anomaly.
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Palma, Spain
Hesperia Mallorca Hotel
This Palma hotel's 2026 renovation went full retro, complete with a custom orange-scented aroma inspired by Mallorca's citrus groves.
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Sebring, Florida, United States
CitiCar SV-48
This wedge-shaped electric car briefly made its Florida maker America's sixth-largest automaker in 1976.
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Solferino, Italy
Comune di Solferino
Where a businessman's wrong turn led to the Red Cross: 40,000 battle casualties inspired the Geneva Conventions.
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Rye TN31 7AB, United Kingdom
Rye Train Station
Saved by bad roads: Rye's station dodged the Beeching axe in 1963, and its rare 1894 signal box still operates daily.
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Nałęczów, Poland
Arche Nałęczów
This former Communist militia sanatorium now welcomes guests to Poland's only cardiac spa, where the microclimate lowers blood pressure.
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Szentendre, Hungary
Pirk János Museum
János Pirk painted sowers while working as one himself, supporting five kids between brushstrokes in postwar Szentendre.
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Kythira, Greece
Agia Moni
A war hero's vow, a lightning-proof icon, and a WWII resistance radio, all housed in one golden monastery on Kythira.
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Serifos, Greece
Serifos Town Hall
A German architect who shaped Athens sent neoclassical plans to a pirate-proof village perched 230 meters above the Aegean.
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Tabriz, Iran
Pottery Museum
Tabriz's Pottery Museum survived earthquakes that destroyed entire cities—now it's Iran's only live pottery workshop.
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Beaune, France
Tribunal d’Instance
Beaune's 1857 courthouse faced its prison across the street, connected by a tunnel for maximum judicial efficiency.
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Kamianets'-podil's'kyi, Ukraine
Dominican Church of St Nicholas
Inside this Ukrainian church stands an Ottoman-era Muslim pulpit from the 1670s: installed for a sultan's wife, never removed.
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Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Taxi
Japan's taxi industry begam with six Model T's; now, there are about 43,000x as many!
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Sassnitz, Germany
Kurmuschel Sassnitz
East Germany's concrete shells: born from material scarcity, Müther's 74 structures turned shortage into architectural innovation.
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Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Miami Beach Lifeguard Towers
Hurricane Andrew flattened the lifeguard towers, so Miami rebuilt them as anthropomorphic Art Deco sentinels.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Superbon
Where butchers once ruled, Superbon thrives in a district that traded cleavers for cocktails.
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Farmers Public Market
Built to end a farmer-versus-business feud, this 1928 market hosted Count Basie upstairs and produce vendors downstairs.
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Yucatán, Mexico
Convento de San Antonio da Padua
The world's second-largest atrium was built in six months by 6,000 Maya workers—using stones from their own demolished pyramid.
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Corfu, Greece
Corfu
The only Greek island never conquered by the Ottomans, Corfu's Venetian soul survived four centuries of sieges.
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Kingston SE, South Australia, Australia
The Big Lobster
Modeled on a real stuffed lobster, Larry was voted Australia's #1 Big Thing in 2021 beating over 1,000 competitors.
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Djúpvegur, Iceland
Óshólar Lighthouse
This 1937 lighthouse guided boats to a town with no road access until 1950, where the sea was safer than land for decades.
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Uayma, Mexico
Santo Domingo de Guzmán Church
Built from stones of dismantled Maya temples, this church took priests over 100 years to convince locals to enter.
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Ioannina, Greece
Stoa Liampei
A covered arcade rebuilt in stone and iron after fire leveled half the city's shops in the 1800s now hosts modern day shops.
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Superior, Arizona, United States
Superior Climbing Shack
A former copper mining town reinvents itself one climbing route at a time, with 1,000 sport climbs replacing underground shafts.
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Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Jefferson School
After designing 140 churches, architect Shepard S. Woodcock finally built something you could skip on Sundays.
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Newquay, United Kingdom
SeaSpace
Newquay's newest hotel sits between Britain's surf heritage and its humpback whale comeback- swim, spot whales, repeat.
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Lugano, Switzerland
Swiss Customs Museum
A museum with no roads and a submarine built to smuggle salami across Lake Lugano—one succeeded, the other never left shore.
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Jaipur, India
Monkey Temple
This temple honors the elephant god but houses hundreds of monkeys who commute to Jaipur daily to steal and pickpocket.
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