Liepāja, Latvia
Liepaja Northern Forts
These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.
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Liepāja, Latvia
These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.
London, England
This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.
Fethiye, Turkey
These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.
Los Angeles, California
The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.
Pecos, New Mexico
Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.
Zillah, Washington
Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.
Stavanger, Norway
Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.
Ligatne, Latvia
A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.
Monkton, Maryland
This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.
York, Maine
New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.
San Francisco, California
In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.
Salzburg, Austria
This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.
Blois, France
A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.
Lelystad, Netherlands
This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.
Magelang, Indonesia
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.
Leiden, Netherlands
This historic Dutch newspaper building is covered with media-themed details—and one unrelated oddity.
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Cass, West Virginia
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Quincy, Massachusetts
From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.