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The "Out of Order" public art installation by David Mach.

London, England

‘Out of Order’

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

Whitechapel Bell Foundry

London, England

Whitechapel Bell Foundry

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

Side view of St Augustine's.

London, England

St Augustine's Tower

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

The ghost sign.

London, England

Smith Square World War II Ghost Sign

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

Tower Bridge Chimney.

London, England

Tower Bridge Chimney

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Clock mechanism.

London, England

The Clockmakers' Museum

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

The tombstone found at St. Paul's Cathedral, carved in the classic Ringerike style.

London, England

Viking Tombstone

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

At the entrance to Burlington House stand two K2 telephone boxes.

London, England

K2 Telephone Boxes

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Faraday's lab.

London, England

Michael Faraday's Laboratory

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Battersea Power Staion

London, England

Battersea Power Station

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Museum of Brands

London, England

Museum of Brands

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

London, England

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

London, England

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

David Bowie Graffiti Mural

London, England

David Bowie Graffiti Mural

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

London, England

The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Brompton Cemetery

London, England

Brompton Cemetery

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum

London, England

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Ruins of a Victorian folly in Sydenham Hill Woods, London, UK. (Mark Bowler/Atlas Obscura)

London, England

Ruined Victorian Folly

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Peeling paint inside The Maples.
Permanently Closed

Ovid, New York

Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Decaying red telephone boxes
Permanently Closed

Thirsk, England

Red Telephone Box Graveyard

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

California City: The Unbuilt Suburb

California City, California

California City: The Unbuilt Suburb

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Vintage cars.

Varna, Bulgaria

Retro Museum

The Grand Mall in Varna hosts one of the biggest collections of Soviet-era paraphernalia in Bulgaria.

Perla 2

Stomoplo, Bulgaria

Perla 2

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

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