Aguascalientes, Mexico
National Museum of Death
A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.
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Aguascalientes, Mexico
A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.
San José de Gracia, Mexico
On a picturesque lake island, a massive, “broken” crucifixion has become a popular pilgrimage destination.
Qatar
An abandoned fishing village in pre-oil Qatar.
Campbell, Ohio
There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.
Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.
East Haddam, Connecticut
This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.
Harrogate, England
A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.
Ripon, England
Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.
Kettlewell, England
Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.
Coverham, England
A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.
Harrogate, England
The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.
Kragujevac, Serbia
The ruins of a military-industrial complex now host concerts and more.
Bethel, New York
The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.
La Quinta, California
A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.
Sado, Japan
For centuries, this gold mine was the powerhouse behind the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Sado, Japan
A wooden prison doesn't sound like a good idea, yet this abandoned 1950s detention center still stands today.
Sado, Japan
This giant statue pays homage to this temple's furry residents who keep the landscape pristine.
Sado, Japan
Japan's longest-running music festival takes place on an isolated butterfly-shaped island.
Utrecht, Netherlands
A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.
Utrecht, Netherlands
'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.
Japan
The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.