Architecture

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

An early masterpiece of Le Corbusier, a famed Modernist architect, hiding in plain sight.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

The site of one of the only two star-shaped forts in Japan was used as an elementary school for over a century, much longer than its life as a castle.

This was once the largest four-sided clock in the world (yes, even bigger than Big Ben).

The erstwhile Portuguese Era mint house of Goa.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

Next to a newer mosque in Khujand’s main square lies the city’s oldest mosque, whose interiors are spectacularly intricate.

This chapel was built by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510 to commemorate his entry into the city of Goa on St. Catherine’s Day.

This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

A bustling bazaar with an elaborate facade in Central Asia’s underrated capital.

This waterfront restaurant was the life of the party until a crime syndicate burned it to the ground.