Bern, Switzerland
The Child Eater of Bern
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
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Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Alamo, Nevada
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
Barskoon, Kyrgyzstan
A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.
Winkel, Netherlands
This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.
Clophill, England
A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.
Türisalu, Estonia
Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.
Marseille, France
Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.
Holywell, Wales
Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Russia
A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
Duisburg, Germany
This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.
Mayo, Ireland
Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.
Charleroi, Belgium
The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Ponsanooth, England
A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.
Marseille, France
A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.