Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Mussenden Temple
This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.
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Coleraine, Northern Ireland
This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.
Ballygalley, Northern Ireland
The ruins of a once-grand mansion in Northern Ireland are now thought to be haunted.
Graz, Austria
The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.
Ghat, Libya
Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.
Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.
Budapest, Hungary
A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.
Borgo Valsugana, Italy
An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.
Pramarzo, Italy
Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.
Italy
A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.
Joneikiškės, Lithuania
A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.
Isles of Scilly, England
At high tide, the base of the lighthouse covers practically every inch of the island.
Vác, Hungary
Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Gdańsk, Poland
The site of the first battle of World War II.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Sala, Sweden
This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.
Nome, Alaska
This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.
N'Guigmi, Niger
The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.
Buxton, England
Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.
Ardales, Spain
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
London , England
The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.
London, England
A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.
Hope Valley, England
A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom