Ferny’s place, Cuming County, Neb., 2007. (Nancy Warner) Photographer Nancy Warner traveled to the Great Plains to document the disappearing farms and tell the stories of once-bustling buildings that are now abandoned, places where animals used to roam that have now been taken over by nature. For Warner, surveying the disappearing farmhouses was also personal. “The photographs are an exploration of my childhood memories. Growing up I spent a lot of time on farms of aunts and uncles in Cuming...

Courtesy: NLÉ A floating school in Lagos, Nigeria we featured on weather.com has been nominated as one of the 2014 Designs of the Year from the London Design Museum. The Makoko Floating School was designed by NLÉ, an architecture firm with offices in the Netherlands and Nigeria. The school opened for use in the spring of 2013, two years after NLÉ founder Kunle Adeyemi visited the fishing community and learned that the school building was in bad shape from constant...

The design infuses nature by adding jasmine, palm trees and vibrant flowering vines called bougainvilleas throughout the complex. (Courtesy: Maison Edouard François) City-living can be exciting and convenient. But all that concrete and steel can make you forget the vibrant colors the outdoors has to offer. Welcome to the Gardens of Anfa, a vertical garden residential complex that's set to be "the landscaped heartbeat" in Casablanca, Morocco. (MORE:Forts of Fanaticism: Built for People Who Love to Garden) The designs are...