Hythe, England
St. Leonard's Church Basement Ossuary
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
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Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Zhangye Shi, China
These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.
Alamo, Nevada
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
Prague, Czechia
A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.
Iceland
Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.
Porto, Portugal
Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.
Waiotapu, New Zealand
This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.
Lerwick, Scotland
During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.
Kyoto, Japan
This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."
Paris, France
The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.
London, England
A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.
Lyon, France
For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.
Haddington, Scotland
Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."
Cardross, Scotland
One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.
Kilkenny, Ireland
Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.
Tokyo, Japan
An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.
Mexico City, Mexico
These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.