Prypiat, Ukraine
Jupiter Radiotechnology Factory
A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Prypiat, now long-abandoned.
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Prypiat, Ukraine
A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Prypiat, now long-abandoned.
Parnamirim, Brazil
You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.
Vila de São Jorge, Brazil
These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.
São Domingos do Capim, Brazil
Once a year, ambitious surfers can ride the world's largest river.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Recife, Brazil
The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.
Porto Alegre, Brazil
A group of abandoned factories and buildings that have been revitalized and are now used to promote culture, education, entrepreneurialism, and sustainable development.
Bento Gonçalves, Brazil
After a terrible drought, townspeople used wine to build this church.
Rio Grande, Brazil
The longest sea beach in the world can be found on the southern coast of Brazil.
Curitiba, Brazil
Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.
Nova Redenção, Brazil
Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.
Paraty, Brazil
This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.
Nova Friburgo, Brazil
Moss-covered sculptures fill this small Brazilian gorge.
São Pedro da Aldeia, Brazil
A self built castle built by a salt worker in Brazil.
Iporanga, Brazil
At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.
São Paulo, Brazil
The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."
Yagodninsky District, Russia
Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.
Russia
The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.
Veliky Novgorod, Russia
This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.
Murmansk, Russia
A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.
Sosnogorsk, Russia
Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.