Smygehuk Fyr Sweden's southernmost lighthouse, an iron tower ordered by contract in 1882, dark for 25 years and lit again in 2001
Maison Prouvé 58 Stay in a Jean Prouvé demountable house below Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Kanmon Pedestrian Tunnel Walk from Honshu to Kyushu under the sea
El Roblar A 1919 Ojai hotel, reopened and filled with 1,000 curiosities
Tiptree Jam Museum A free barn museum at the Wilkin & Sons jam factory, with a four-legged chicken and a Gladstone letter
Eastern California Museum A county museum in Independence, California, said to keep a set of homemade coyote-tooth dentures
Hầm Hô A stretch of falls, pools and granite boulders on Vietnam's Kút River, best seen from a basket boat
Khada Parsi A cast-iron Parsi philanthropist on a pillar, ringed by mermaid fountains in the middle of a Mumbai junction
Round Barn Capital of the World Fulton County, Indiana, where a 1924 round barn was carried off a farm and a title was settled by letter
Pinkie the Pink Elephant A fiberglass elephant in giant black glasses, guarding a Wisconsin gas station since the 1960s
Wahpper: The World's Largest Catfish A 40-foot fiberglass channel catfish on the Red River, built in 1997 to say what the river is good for
House of the Gladiators A 3rd-century Roman mosaic that names its gladiators, mid-duel
Wild Bird Petroglyph Life-sized birds carved into boulders along the trails of a Maine land trust
The Abandoned Monorail of Melaka A 2010 monorail loop that never found its riders, left standing
The Mocking Mural in Oslo City Hall A boy sticking out his tongue at the second door cut into a painter's wall
Lighthouses of the World Every charted light on a night globe, flashing on its real cycle
Mini Statues of Uzhhorod Eighty-odd palm-sized bronzes hiding on the railings of a Ukrainian old town
Casa Caban Hayama Patricia Urquiola's fourteen-room hotel on Sagami Bay, where the facade, the ceiling and the pool floor are all variations on a weave
Havneholmen Metro Station A Copenhagen platform where the benches hang from the ceiling
23rd Street Mural An Austin wall painted in 1973–74 that its three artists kept adding to for fifty years
Metro Argüelles Mosaic A 1995 broken-tile view of Madrid's Parque del Oeste, with the cable car crossing the sky
The Ivanhoe Clock The four figures atop this Leeds arcade have mimed striking its bells since 1877
The People's Treasure A Bishkek monument that lost its bronze heroes, and the living Kyrgyz who climbed up to stand in for them
Jimbōchō Tokyo's used-book district, where more than 170 shops share a few blocks
The Press Mosaic A Soviet printing house whose facade is carved into two giant open pages
Colle Eletto Cableway Gubbio's 1960 cableway, ridden standing in an open birdcage
Sydney Hospital's Il Porcellino A bronze boar from Florence that has raised money for a hospital since 1968
Nick Weerts Memorial Phone Booth A Madison phone booth where the past does the talking
Benedictine Monastery of Las Condes Two monks designed a church out of two white cubes and let the Andean light do the rest
The Warner Theatre A 1931 movie palace whose marquee went dark for 40 years, then came back as a faithful rebuild
Hoshinoya Nara Prison Japan's last intact Meiji prison, radial wings and all, reopened in June as a hotel where every suite is a run of nine to eleven cells
The Peeping Tom of Tallinn A gilded lorgnette on a 1909 gable, and three incompatible stories about why it is up there
Palm Temple A cedar dome of dichroic glass outside a chemistry building, with a bell inside counting the day's extinctions
The Rabbit Hole, Rue Jankowski Six storeys of anamorphic painting that turn a Le Mans dead end into a tunnel, from one spot on the pavement
Waldkunstpfad A 3.3-kilometre forest path outside Darmstadt that becomes an art exhibition every second summer
Bunker Tombé The Atlantic Wall shelter that was pushed off a Normandy cliff and landed on its end
Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station The first place in Canada to hear the Titanic
Freedom Park Twenty miles of mountain bike trail, and three cabins that were somebody's address
Fossil Beach at York River State Park A mile of trail, and a beach the cliffs keep restocking
Deep Dive Dubai Sixty metres down, past an ATM, a foosball table and a garage full of cars
Bunski Kanal The last 850 metres of a river that is only nine kilometres long
Knize Adolf Loos designed the shop in 1913 and nobody has had a better idea since
'The Missing' Cabin A film set left standing in a volcanic bowl, twenty-three years after the crew left
Volvo Island A man dug the ground out from under his own car and left it there for fourteen years
Portsmouth Flood Wall Murals The wall Portsmouth built to keep the Ohio River out, painted into a half-mile gallery of its own history
Rogue Creamery A Depression-era dairy co-op in southern Oregon that has twice made the best cheese in the world
Hon's BBQ Texas brisket technique, aimed at Hong Kong
The Galerie d'Apollon The Louvre's jewel room, reopened with every case emptied on purpose
The Gävle Goat A 43-foot straw goat that has survived Christmas only seventeen times since 1966
South Main Plaza Dog Fountain Eighteen dogs, one cat, and a man who drove to Toronto to ask permission
The 2027 Eclipse at Luxor Six minutes and twenty-three seconds of totality, and nothing longer on reachable land until 2114
Lazareto de Menorca An island laid out so that 111,184 people could arrive without touching anyone
The Original Backrooms Location The internet's most famous liminal void was a hobby shop building a racetrack
Reynard's Cave The arch is the famous part; the cave next door held the coins
Møllestien Aarhus's prettiest lane is about seventy years old, and that is the interesting part
Southernmost ATM Two cash machines at 77°51′ south, one of them kept alive by eating the other
Riviera Hotel Menorca Fourteen rooms in Ciutadella where the stripe is the architecture, not the trim
Karafuneya Coffee The Kyoto kissaten that built a parfait for 25
Oshirado A pavilion of a thousand horse-god effigies, rewrapped in prayer cloth every year
Braun Collection The industrial-design canon, one flight up in a Kronberg strip mall, for three euros
Kawran Bazar Dhaka's wholesale market runs hardest at 2am — and the city has been trying to move it since 2024
Saugerties Lighthouse An 1869 lighthouse you can sleep in, if you read the tide chart first
The Living History Museum of Camping A museum where the exhibits have beds and you sleep in them
Submarine Safari A submarine that takes 44 people thirty metres under Tenerife
Fuel Tank Orca Mural A leaping orca turns Palmer Station's biggest fuel tank into Antarctica's most recognizable landmark
Drops of Rain Giant resin faces surfacing out of the topiary above the Étretat cliffs
The House of David Bowie Hauptstraße 155, where strangers still tuck roses into the iron door
Old Jail Art Center A 19th-century Texas jail rehung with Picasso and Renoir
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library A Snøhetta library in the Badlands where an AI Roosevelt takes your questions
Humphrey the M5 Camel A homemade carnival float that never left its Somerset field
Huset, Longyearbyen the world's northernmost fine dining, remade by Snøhetta
Statue of Lennie Gwyther and Ginger Mick The nine-year-old who rode his pony 620 miles to watch the Sydney Harbour Bridge open
Porcelain Room A Rococo chamber at Aranjuez sheathed floor-to-ceiling in porcelain
Tropfsteinmaschine, 1996–2496 A basement museum machine growing a stalactite-stalagmite pair over 500 years
Lai Tak Tsuen Estate Hong Kong's only cylindrical public housing — four 1976 drums around open-air atria, and still someone's home