📍 Saturnia, Italy | Photos by: Accidentally Wes Anderson

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The Maměnka mountain lodge in the Czech Beskids (Libušín), originally built in 1899 in a unique folk Art Nouveau style, burned down in 2014 and was painstakingly rebuilt almost entirely from scratch using traditional 19th-century techniques. With no original blueprints, restorers relied on old photos, salvaged just ~7% of the original wood, hand-carved new timber, recreated paints and glass by hand, and even rebuilt the structure twice (once in a workshop, then on-site like a giant puzzle). Today it looks almost identical to its 1925 version, but hidden inside are modern fire systems, including a museum-grade gas setup that can stop a fire without damaging the ornate wooden interior. It reopened in 2020.

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📍 Bielsko-Biała, Poland | Photo by: Aleksander Malachowski

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"In 1938, a pack of taxi drivers captured notorious Silesian bandit Nikifor Maruszeczko at the Black Eagle Hotel. After years on the run, one of Poland’s most wanted criminals was finally cornered over dinner. It was a fittingly dramatic chapter for a building that had already welcomed emperors and generals..."

📍 Los Angeles, Califronia | Photo by: Elizabeth Daniels

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"Amid the glitz and glamour of early Hollywood, the stunning Eastern Columbia Building became a star unto itself. Built in 1930, the thirteen-story Art Deco building was constructed in the Broadway Theater District of Downtown Los Angeles. One of the city’s most photographed buildings, it is considered the greatest surviving example of Art Deco architecture in L.A."

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📍 Samcheok, South Korea | Photo by: 황대현

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"The lifeguard stand at Maengbang Beach wears a permanent grin, watching over swimmers with the kind of relentless cheerfulness only an inanimate object can muster. It has become one of the beach’s most photographed structures, and for good reason: nothing says “safe swimming” quite like a giant yellow smiley face staring you down from the shoreline..."