Kyoto, Japan
Yokai Street
This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.
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Kyoto, Japan
This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.
Kampong Thom, Cambodia
This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.
Monduli, Tanzania
The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.
Louisville, Kentucky
This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.
Silverton, Australia
This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.
Dakar, Senegal
Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.
Cricket Saint Thomas, England
The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.
Taipei, Taiwan
Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Dump, Belize
A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.
Ahmedabad, India
This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.
Budapest, Hungary
A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Alice Town, Bahamas
One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
Charleroi, Belgium
The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
Russia
What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Herat, Afghanistan
Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.
Spanish Fork, Utah
Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.
Kilpeck, England
Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Worcester, Massachusetts
The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.