Taipei, Taiwan
Carp Hill Miniatures
This hiking trail features an aging but endearing collection of folk miniatures depicting Taiwan’s landmarks.
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Taipei, Taiwan
This hiking trail features an aging but endearing collection of folk miniatures depicting Taiwan’s landmarks.
Barèges, France
The remains of an abandoned funicular railway that once ferried skiers and hikers to great heights in the Pyrenees.
Olst, Netherlands
This site was constructed as a Cold War-era defense against a Russian invasion.
Sakura, Japan
A small park inhabited by handmade water goblins.
Rome, Italy
When this 400-year-old fountain fell into disrepair, officials covered the mess up with what looks like a giant soup tureen.
Oost-, West- en Middelbeers, Netherlands
This fake airfield was built as a decoy to protect a real airport from the Allied Forces.
Palermo, Italy
This palace offers an 18th-century European take on Chinese design and architecture.
Mesquite, Nevada
A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Local legend of a lurking canal crocodile takes on a life of its own with this sculpture.
London, England
Tucked away in a London Tube station, this 1920s linear clock shows the time across the world all at once.
Lancashire, England
This abandoned Brutalist tower looming over the M6 Motorway once featured a restaurant.
Espoo, Finland
Visit Finnish architect Matti Suuronen's first UFO-shaped home.
Old Station, California
A large lava tube that can be walked through with no special equipment.
Aranđelovac, Serbia
Once one of the most beautiful buildings in Serbia, this palace stands abandoned in a park.
Girona, Spain
A historic structure inspired by Roman, Muslim, and Jewish bath houses.
Swansea, Wales
A Swansea industrial estate hides a sanctuary to that most humble mode of public transport: the bus.
Liverpool, England
This abandoned concrete building was once hailed as an innovative architectural marvel, originally built to store sugar.
Baku, Azerbaijan
Look up as you explore Baku’s old town to find a monument to the local feline population.
Nepal
These crumbling walls serve as a reminder of the golden age of safaris in Chitwan National Park.
San Francisco, California
Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.
Türisalu, Estonia
Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.
Sierpnica, Poland
An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."
Poland
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Berlin, Germany
Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.