A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

High in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, a magnificent library designed by a world-famous architect.

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.

One of the world's largest collections of rare medical texts and ephemera.

You’ve heard of bookworms, but this small sculpture at a university library may be the world’s first bookbee.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

This sculpture pays homage to sailors that perished attempting to round Cape Horn.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

This chimney is the oldest free standing industrial chimney in Britain.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

Only the headframes remain from this mining operation, once one of the largest in the region.

The church and nearby castle are all that remains of a medieval village, mysteriously abandoned.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

The abandoned buildings of a hospital that saw most of its activity during the World Wars.