Edinburgh, Scotland
The Burryman
As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.
Glasgow, Scotland
This mural condenses 96 miles of one of Scotland's best-known trails into a unique art display.
Glasgow, Scotland
This astronomically-aligned stone circle was the first of its kind to be built in Great Britain after a 3,000-year hiatus.
Stockholm, Sweden
This poured-concrete water reservoir is a gem of modernist architecture well-hidden in a city forest.
Kerry, Ireland
An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.
Mayo, Ireland
This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.
New York, New York
A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.
Oakland, California
The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.
Oakland, California
A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.
Berkeley, California
This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.
Oakland, California
Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.
Marseille, France
Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.
Stomoplo, Bulgaria
Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.
Isthmia, Greece
A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.
Vienna, Austria
This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.
Rome, Italy
This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.
Fregene, Italy
This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.
Bern, Switzerland
The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.
Mexico City, Mexico
This hotel is an amazing example of the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura movement.
London, England
An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.
Essen, Germany
The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.
Marseille, France
What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?
London, England
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.