Swansea, Wales
Tower of the Ecliptic Observatory
Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.
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Swansea, Wales
Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.
Holywell, Wales
Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.
Denbigh, Wales
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
Amlwch, Wales
The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
Podoštra, Croatia
Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.
Nebljusi, Croatia
A forgotten monument to Yugoslavian freedom.
Željava, Croatia
Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.
Jablanac, Croatia
The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.
Qaradagh, Azerbaijan
Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
Piusa, Estonia
Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.
Glastonbury, England
Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.
Kaycee, Wyoming
The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Morocco
Sleepy fishing port not included on many maps.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Ngong Ping, Hong Kong
Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.
Bamyan, Afghanistan
Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.
Olvera, Spain
Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Odda, Norway
Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."