Malls

The Shinsegae Department Store is the largest of its kind in the whole world.

A reconstructed section of a Roman bathhouse sits next to an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating back to the 1930s.

This now-abandoned shopping center in Playa del Carmen was built to resemble a medieval European castle.

Likely Mexico City's most eclectic shopping mall, with its own version of the Walk of Fame.

This 19th-century shopping arcade has charming, unusual stores like a luthier workshop and even the local Esperanto Association.

The country’s first escalator is located in department store filled with batiks and beautiful Indonesian products.

These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

A giant glider—designed by the father of the Rubik's Cube's designer—now soars within a shopping mall.

An entire shopping mall and industrial terrain named for the time the king of Sweden's car went into a ditch.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

This Aztec structure remained hidden until the demolition of a supermarket exposed the lost temple.

This art shopping center still boasts pieces of its past as a textile factory.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.