Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

This unique sculptural clock transforms into a periscope every hour.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.