Places Edited by ahvenas

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

A Russian museum dedicated to the household staple, the samovar.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.