Bundoora, Australia
Upside-Down Charles La Trobe Statue
This strange portrayal of the state's first lieutenant-governor literally stands on its head.
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Bundoora, Australia
This strange portrayal of the state's first lieutenant-governor literally stands on its head.
Savigny-lès-Beaune, France
This French chateau is home to the world’s largest private collection of fighter jets.
Bangkok, Thailand
This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.
Da Nang, Vietnam
This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.
Dmitrovsky District, Russia
A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.
Stomoplo, Bulgaria
Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.
Panguila, Angola
Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.
Vilnius, Lithuania
The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.
Seaview, England
This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.
Vilnius, Lithuania
An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.
Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.
Ishøj, Denmark
Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Xilin Gol, China
The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.
Pyramiden, Norway
This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.
Michamvi, Tanzania
Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.
Atrani, Italy
This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.
Athens, Greece
The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.
Thessaloniki, Greece
Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.
Chios, Greece
Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Auvers Village, France
Memorializing the bravery of one young woman facing the monster of her age.