These Buildings Now Serve Other Purposes (40 pics)

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This Former Theatre In Buenos Aires Transformed Into A Bookstore

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Hotel I Stayed At Was Formerly A Train Station And Had An Actual Train Inside It, With Rooms Inside Each Car

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My Friend’s Living Room In Brooklyn, NY. The Apartment Is Built Inside An Old Church

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The Building Used For The Swimming Events At The 2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing Was Transformed Into This Dope-Looking Waterpark

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Architect Turns Old WWII Era Cement Factory Into His Home

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A 100-Year-Old Church In Spain Converted Into A Skatepark

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The Liberty Hotel In Boston Which Was Formerly The Charles St Jail

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Church Repurposed Into Dominicanen Bookstore In Maastricht, Netherlands Is Now In The Top 10 Most Beautiful Bookstores Worldwide

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Waterpark "Tropical Islands" In A Former Airship Hangar In Krausnick, Germany

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The Walgreens In My Neighborhood Used To Be A Bank And They Used Its Vault As Their Vitamin Section

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Old Rusty Ship Turned Into Stunning Building With Trees And Plants

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The Tallest Indoor Climbing Wall Is Inside Of A Repurposed Grain Silo

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Some Lucky Bastard Gets To Live In This Church

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My College Used To Be A Shopping Mall

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My Apartment Building Used To Be A School

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What Used To Be An Abandoned Church Is Now One Of The Most Powerful Supercomputing Centers In The World

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This Hotel Used To Be A Brewery

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My House Used To Be A Police Station And My Bathroom Is An Old Jail Cell, The Original Window Is Still In Place

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Revitalized One Of The Last Remaining Art Nouveau Brewhouses As A Bar, In The Middle Of Fürth Südstadt

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Former Power Station Converted Into An Industrial Cafe And Restaurant With Exposed Brickwork And Abundant Planting In Melbourne, Australia

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Court Room That’s Now A Cafe. Cells Are The Toilets. St. Albans, England

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My Hotel In Oxford, England Is A Former Prison

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Swimming Pool In Old Church: Netherne, Surrey

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Ottawa's Jail Hostel, Each Cell Converted To A Two-Person Hostel Room

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FBI Former NYC Headquarters Is Now A Target But They Kept This Safe

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My House Is A 20,000 Sq Ft 1926 Former Freemason Temple That We Have Been Renovating By Ourselves While Living Inside For The Past 2.5 Years

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My Hotel Room Used To Be A Chapel

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My Apartment Is An Old Police Station And Still Has The Original But Painted Cell Doors

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This Starbucks Drive-Thru In An Old Car Wash

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Jail Turned Into Events Space In Melbourne, Australia

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This Old Pool Converted Into Apartments

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Church Turned Into A Trampoline Park. The Hague, Netherlands

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This Grocery Store Used To Be A Hockey Stadium

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My House Used To Be A Bank, So We Use The Old Safe/Vault As A Basement

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My Apartment Used To Be A YMCA

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Former Chruch, Now Home To The Dutch Brewer, Jopen

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My School’s Library Used To Be A Bank

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This Satellite Lab Used To Be A McDonald's