A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The home where the famous astrologer wrote some of his most telling prophecies.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.