Preservation

Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A gardener saved a beloved clock face from destruction by building it into a wall outside his house.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.