Helsinki, Finland
Pohjola Insurance Building
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
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Helsinki, Finland
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Helsinki, Finland
This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.
Helsinki, Finland
An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.
Helsinki, Finland
This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.
Helsinki, Finland
A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.
Hemel Hempstead, England
A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.
Tring, England
The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.
Pendine, Wales
Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.
Margate, England
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.
Penzance, England
A circle stone within a stone circle.
Botallack, Cornwall
These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
Liskeard, England
These "bridges" help confused bats cross the road.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Newquay, England
Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.
Newquay, England
An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.
Bude, England
An octagonal folly tower overlooking the sea.
Clovelly, England
Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.
Woolfardisworthy, England
The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.
Glastonbury, England
Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.
Bridgwater, England
The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.