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Naples, Italy

Galleria Umberto I

Naples built this soaring glass arcade to clean up a city ravaged by cholera—and rival Milan.

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Manerba del Garda, Italy

Pontile di San Sivino

Beneath the swimmers at San Sivino lies an entire Bronze Age village, submerged for over 3,000 years.

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San Martino della Battaglia, Italy

Torre di San Martino della Battaglia

Three emperors met on a hill. Italy crowdfunded a tower with a 490-metre ramp to remember what happened next.

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Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto Tower

Kyoto Tower dodged height limits by calling itself a rooftop structure—a lighthouse for a city with no sea.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo Tower

Once the tallest tower in the world, built from melted-down tanks and modeled on a shape it would soon outgrow.

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Osaka, Japan

Tsūtenkaku Tower

Asia's second-tallest structure in 1912, Tsūtenkaku connected to Luna Park via Japan's first aerial tramway before both vanished.

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