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Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
Wilson Borough Water Authority
Wilson Borough's brutalist water tower: no paint, no charm, just concrete angles pointing the way home since the late '90s.
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Blast from the past. Throwback. Vintage. All of this and more. These places might seem as if they are stuck in time, but have a look around, maybe you'll be inspired to take a trip down memory lane.
Khet Bang Rak, Thailand
The Standard Hotel Bangkok Mahanakon
The elevators at The Standard Bangkok come in bold, clashing colors: a chromatic rebellion inside a pixelated tower.
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Paris, France
Piscine Pontoise
Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller recorded Tarzan's yell here, then Cousteau tested his first scuba gear in the same basin.
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Ushuaia, Argentina
Ushuaia Bus
A British double-decker navigates the world's southernmost city, where tango soundtracks stories of escaped prisoners.
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Ericeira, Portugal
Ericeira
One of two European surfing reserve draws wave-chasers, but vintage Land Rover devotees come for Portugal's dirt roads.
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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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Zürich, Switzerland
Kehrichtverbrennungsanlage Josef
The chimney kept its warning stripes long after it stopped warning anyone about anything but falcons.
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Montauk, New York, United States
White’s Liquors
This neon sign marks where Montauk kids once slurped ice cream sodas, before the White family traded prescriptions for pours.
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Coronado, California, United States
Coronado Beach
Coronado's striped beach cabanas nod to Tent City, where 1,000 families summered for $4.50 a week from 1900 to 1939.
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Dubois, Wyoming, United States
Dubois Museum
From hacking railroad ties in frozen forests to opening a gas station lined with Western paperbacks.
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Lakeside, Colorado, United States
Lakeside Amusement Park
To sell beer at his amusement park, a Denver brewer incorporated his own town: population 16, with its own police force.
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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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Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
The Cab Phone @ Aloha Tower
This lei-wrapped phone near Aloha Tower connects directly to a cab dispatcher—no coins, no dialing, just pick up and go.
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Ellensburg, Washington, United States
The Lazy A Coffee
A gas station that served Highway 10 travelers for 42 years now dispenses lattes instead of leaded.
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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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Vienna, Austria
Prater Amusement Park
An emperor's hunting grounds became a public playground - and the puppets got to stay.
AWA visted here
Dallas, Texas, United States
The Kessler Theatre
The last U.S. theater built before WWII survived Gene Autry's ownership, a tornado, a fire, and fifty years of abandonment.
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Sierra Madre, California, United States
Sierra Madre Playhouse
This 1910 furniture shop became a 1,200-seat movie palace, survived a projector fire, screened Bergman films, and doubled as 1939 Berkeley in Oppenheimer.
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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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Perkins, Oklahoma, United States
Old Texaco Gas Station and Museum
This 1930 Texaco station pioneered the gas-and-groceries model three decades before 'convenience store' was even a term.
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Tangalle, Sri Lanka
Ruhunu Cinema
As Sri Lanka lost cinemas at a rate of one per month for nearly a decade, Tangalle's Ruhunu Cinema kept its projector running.
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New York, New York, United States
Domino Sugar Refinery
At its peak, this factory refined 98% of all sugar consumed in the United States.
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Miami, Florida, United States
The Carlyle
This Ocean Drive hotel has appeared in more films than some actors.
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
The Yale Theater
From livestock auctions to Art Deco revival: this Oklahoma City theater that refused to stay dark.
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Alnwick, United Kingdom
Alnwick Gardens
Behind skull-marked gates, gardeners in hazmat suits tend belladonna and hemlock. Oh, and 20 to 30 visitors faint from the fumes every year.
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Matakana, New Zealand
Matakana Post Centre
A post centre for 570 people, dressed in herringbone tiles as if expecting royalty—or at least a second glance.
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Kampar, Malaysia
Bandar Agacia
Once a pastel Disney-inspired township with cafés, themed streets, and dreams of a Cinderella castle didn't quite see a fairytale ending (yet!).
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Beograd, Serbia
Boem Bar Brasserie
Skadarlija, a historic street in Belgrade, is the epitome of bohemian charm.
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Waco, Texas, United States
Dr Pepper Museum
The oldest major soft drink in the US of A.
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Morro Bay, California, United States
Former Antique Store, Morro Bay
Looks like this building packed its bags in the 1940s and never quite disembarked.
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Gila Bend, Arizona, United States
Space Age Lodge
This Space Age Lodge seems plucked from another time...
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Margate, United Kingdom
Margate Lido
This stoic Art Deco tower is all that remains of a former seaside bathing facility in Kent, England.