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benlloyd

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Abandoned Agricultural Mill

Śmiałowice, Poland

Abandoned Agricultural Mill

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

Iron Fountain Gyumri

Gyumri, Armenia

Iron Fountain Gyumri

It's a massive, rusted fountain that survived an earthquake in 1988.

Üç Haclı Kilise

Çavuşin, Turkey

Üç Haclı Kilise

A 1600-year-old church carved into the rock, with painted frescoes from 900.

Polly at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

London, England

Polly at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Vauxhall bridge "Architechture"

London, England

Vauxhall Bridge's Miniature St. Paul's Cathedral

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

Base of the lamp post; the small door can be seen towards the top of the photo.

London, England

Audley Square Spy Lamp Post

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

London Necropolis Railway Station

London, England

London Necropolis Railway Station

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The causeway from Wakering Stairs.

Southend-on-Sea, England

The Broomway

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

Holy Trinity Oak Tree Chapel

Čibukovac, Serbia

Holy Trinity Oak Tree Chapel

Three people can fit inside this little Serbian Orthodox church carved inside a 500-year-old oak tree.

(Flickr/mana_wu)

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The Zaisan Memorial

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

You can stand on top of the horse's head.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Genghis Khan Statue Complex

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

Cathedral of the Transfiguration

Markham, Ontario

Cathedral of the Transfiguration

This giant, unfinished suburban cathedral was meant to be the Canadian seat of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church

Moszna Castle

Moszna, Poland

Moszna Castle

Once tied to Templar legend and later to Prussian counts, this fairy-tale palace has witnessed centuries of Polish history

Skanderbeg Memorial

Lezhë, Albania

Skanderbeg Memorial

The mausoleum of a national hero of Albania is placed in a former church and mosque

Main Post Office, Skopje, 1974

Skopje, North Macedonia

Post Office and Telecommunications Center

A Brutalist architectural gem hidden among Skopje’s neoclassical buildings.

Southernmost ATM

McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Southernmost ATM

The only place to get cash in Antarctica.

Museum Cemetery Kramsach

Kramsach, Austria

Museumsfriedhof Kramsach

Cemetery with no dead, but a collection of exceptionally irreverent funerary monuments, site of the World Peace Cross and the world's most monumental Danse Macabre

Museo Casa del Mendrugo

Puebla, Mexico

Museo Casa del Mendrugo

Home to an astounding collection of carved skulls and other artifacts from Puebla's history

Muchołapka, or "Hitler's Stonehenge".

Poland

Muchołapka

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".

Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins

New York, New York

Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The Ship of Doom at sundown

Skopje, North Macedonia

The Ship of Doom

A tragic legacy of the attempt to beautify Skopje and line the pockets of corrupt politicians

Die Volkskammer

Berlin, Germany

Die Volkskammer

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

Rio de Janeiro Cathedral

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro Cathedral

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

A maze of graves.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cemitério São João Batista

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

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