Varstu Parish, Estonia
Pähni Megaphones
A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.
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Varstu Parish, Estonia
A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.
Rummu, Estonia
The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.
New York, New York
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
New York, New York
New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Madrid, Spain
This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Helsinki, Finland
An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.
Stockholm, Sweden
An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
Venice, Italy
A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.