Paris, France
Grande Caryatid
This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.
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Paris, France
This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.
Yerevan, Armenia
These ruins of a Soviet children's railway station have a haunted atmosphere.
Utrecht, Netherlands
The world's first fish doorbell monitors this water passageway.
Chicago, Illinois
In Chicago, an empty relic of a time when neighborhood zoos were more common.
Bečej, Serbia
A rich Serb hired foreign craftsmen to secretly build the castle of his dreams.
Hilo, Hawaii
Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.
London, England
A statue for a zoo that was never built.
Lilly, Pennsylvania
This sanitorium-turned-asylum-turned-prison is now abandoned and a hotspot for enjoyers of the paranormal.
Gustavus, Alaska
Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.
Tsinandali, Georgia
In the garden of a Georgia museum, without any explanation, is a monumental head of the Communist icon.
Hong Kong
Abandoned British military fortifications, slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Llantrisant, Wales
No one knows why this round stone structure was built on a hilltop in Wales.
Boston, Massachusetts
These structures serve as a memorial to one of Boston’s most ambitious and controversial urban redevelopment projects.
Hokuto, Japan
One of Japan’s oldest and largest cherry trees is said to have been planted by an ancient, heroic prince.
Toyooka, Japan
A dramatic landscape of ancient lava, carved into hexagonal columns by nature itself.
Napier, New Zealand
The highest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world.
Chiriaco Summit, California
Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.
Oxford, England
A lost World War II military camp and post-war suburb swallowed by the woods.
Chisinau, Moldova
Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.
Surrey, England
First road tunnel in England.
Michigan City, Indiana
These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.
Istria, Romania
Once a thriving Greek port, now a windswept ruin lost to time.
Prague, Czechia
This pink tractor statue pays tribute to a legendary underground punk band.