Buildings

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

This old building has served as a bank, post office, library, and city hall.

The oldest skyscraper of Europe now stands dwarfed by the surrounding structures.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

Here once stood an opulent state guest house that symbolized the Westernization of Japan.

Decorated with a staggering 1,380 ladybugs, the installation has turned what was once a grim, forgotten nickel mine into a landmark and a statement.

A nouveau-riche hilltop “palace” that once provided lodging to more than a hundred fishermen.

Known as the "Grand Lady of Jersey City,” the city's first racially-integrated hotel was owned by a preacher who was, depending on who you ask, a cult leader, civil rights pioneer, or the manifestation of God.

After local authorities changed the design, the building's architect, Le Corbusier, wanted nothing to do with it.

This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

A remarkably well-preserved stage stop from the late 19th century in a remote part of Nevada.

The Port of Yokohama’s customs headquarters building resembles a Moorish kasbah, complete with a minaret.

An Antoni Gaudí masterpiece in Astorga.

This backcountry hut was home to an asbestos miner and his wife for 40 years.

The memory of the ancient unit of measurement of local builders.