Inglis, Manitoba kept its row of five wooden grain elevators after they closed in 1995. A volunteer committee won the row national historic status.

Kulin, a Western Australia farm town of 294 people, built bush races from nothing in 1995 and let its farmers advertise them with scrap metal horses.

Foxton, New Zealand, lost its river to a 1943 flood scheme and built De Molen, a working Dutch windmill dreamed up in 1987 and opened in 2003.

Orvelte, a car-free Drenthe village the Dutch state protected in 1967, was rebuilt as a monument where about 84 people live.

El Gouna, Egypt began in 1989 as undeveloped Red Sea coast and is now a town of around 25,000 residents with marinas and a film festival.

Jaisalmer, India lost its caravan trade. Rajasthan authorities launched a Desert Festival in 1979, and several hundred thousand travellers come each year.

In 1968 Robert McCulloch paid $2.46 million for London Bridge to sell lots at Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The city draws more than 800,000 visitors a year.

Holbrook, Arizona sits on Route 66, where Chester Lewis opened fifteen concrete teepees in 1950 and his family reopened them in 1988.

Tabernas, Spain kept the Wild West sets film crews built in the 1960s, and three private parks now stage gunfights and stunts, daily in season.

AlUla, Saudi Arabia got a Royal Commission by decree in 2017. The Hegra tombs opened in 2020, and the oasis drew about 320,000 visitors in 2025.