Boom!

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Czech architect Jan Letzel deserves some kind of prize. His Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall in Hiroshima, Japan, withstood the 1945 atomic bomb, though the blast took place almost directly overhead.

He’d reinforced it in case of earthquakes.

The ruin was made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996 — over the objections of the U.S. and China.