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Alex Timian

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100-foot-long reclining Buddha (Flickr/irene.)

George Town, Malaysia

Wat Chaiya Mangkalaram

Giant relaxing Buddha in Malaysia.

Setenil De Las Bodegas

Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain

Setenil De Las Bodegas

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

Inside the giant whale fountain (Flickr/Jorden rundt og hjem igen)

Collodi, Italy

Pinocchio Park

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Zigzag aqueduct

Chamis, Peru

Cumbe Mayo and Los Frailones

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

Siberian entertainment for miners' children (Flickr/Магадан)

Yagodninsky District, Russia

Kadykchan

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

The badlands.

Caledon, Ontario

Cheltenham Badlands

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

The Horca del Inca, a pre-Incan observatory

Copacabana, Bolivia

Horca del Inca

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

Roads converge at Jay's Grave (Geograph)

Newton Abbot, England

Jay's Grave

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

The forests of Lithuania concealed the site for almost 20 years

Lithuania

Dvina Missile Silo

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

A boat coffin in 1960 (WikiCommons)

Accra, Ghana

Ga-Adangbe Caskets - Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

Barely standing ruins (Flickr/GnZrG)

Suakin, Sudan

Suakin Island Ruins

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

Burial mounds in the necropolis (Flickr/ortygia)

Cerveteri, Italy

Necropolis of the Banditaccia

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

"Guests," are led through the Prison

Liepāja, Latvia

Karosta Prison Hotel

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

Cracked hard-boiled eggs after soaking

Jinhua, China

Tongzi Dan: Boy Eggs

Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.

An idyllic setting for a love nest

Job, France

L'Etoile de l'Amour

Fur-lined metal pod dangling in the French countryside.

Hundreds of dovecotes in the streets of Mit Gahmr

Madinet Mit Ghamr, Egypt

Mit Ghamr Dovecotes

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

Giant Head

Saint Austell, England

Lost Gardens of Heligan

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Mosaics stretching across every wall of the house

Volendam, Netherlands

Cigar Band House

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

Lush green hills in the background of a phallic headstone

Iran

Khalid Nabi Cemetery

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

Varosha Beach Resort

Famagusta, Cyprus

Varosha Beach Resort

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

San Pedro Cemetery of Ninacaca

Ninacaca, Peru

San Pedro Cemetery of Ninacaca

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

The organ, high above the church

Las Pinas, Philippines

Bamboo Organ

Church organ in the Philippines constructed out of bamboo.

Devils' Museum

Kaunas, Lithuania

Devils' Museum

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

Cinevilla

Slampe, Latvia

Cinevilla

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

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