Places Edited by daynix

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

This unique rock formation is quite the local celebrity, although one day it may come crashing down.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.