Sydney, Australia
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
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Sydney, Australia
Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Melbourne, Australia
Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.
Melbourne, Australia
An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.
Saskatchewan
Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.
Vientiane, Laos
When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.
Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.
Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.
Kuta, Indonesia
The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.
Baturiti, Indonesia
This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.
London, England
This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.
Nativitas, Mexico
These strikingly colorful paintings were created by a mysterious Mesoamerican civilization.
Figueres, Spain
This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.
Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.
Guatape, Colombia
The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.
Abang, Indonesia
Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.
Esperance, Australia
A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.
Boawae, Indonesia
A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.
Kelimutu, Indonesia
Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.
Sidoarjo, Indonesia
A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.
Kediri, Indonesia
Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.
Baturiti, Indonesia
An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Indonesia
An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.