London, England
Stompie: The Mandela Way T-34 Tank
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
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London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
Alexandria, Scotland
An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.
Drymen, Scotland
This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.
Craighat, Scotland
A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.
Alexandria, Scotland
A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.
Millport, Scotland
A bizarre stone beast lurks on the beach of a popular tourist island.
Millport, Scotland
The United Kingdom's smallest working cathedral also serves as a quaint bed and breakfast.
Largs, Scotland
This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.
Holywood, Scotland
A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
Metten, Germany
This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.
Kinver, England
The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.
Basel, Switzerland
The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.
Accra, Ghana
This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Bramhope, England
This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.
Prague, Czechia
A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Galway, Ireland
A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.
Dublin, Ireland
More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Portugal
An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.