Places Edited by halkoss

This 16th-century cannon is thought to be the oldest piece of forge-welded wrought iron in India.

These clocks tell time in a theological sense.

Local legend associates this large limestone chunk with a giantess, but archeologists say it may be the remains of a neolithic burial chamber.

A public art installation featuring clawfoot bathtubs on stilts sparks admiration and controversy from locals.

Valletta’s outdoor theatre stands within the ruins of a 19th-century opera house.

This abandoned Brutalist tower looming over the M6 Motorway once featured a restaurant.

This train station meeting spot is an actual, millennia-old tree from the island of Yakushima.

A living lighting fixture.

This hill is all that remains of Cambridge’s former castle.

A grave commemorates piano tuner F. W. Schlieffen, who drowned in floodwaters in 1906.

A cozy, cave-like home hidden in the French countryside.

This historic psychiatric hospital is haunted by its chilling past.

Both Catholic and Protestant graves dot this 17th-century burial ground.

On the outside of the Mersey Tunnels, an Art Deco sculpture of an Egyptian Pharaoh wears goggles and racing gear.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

This boulder commemorates thousands of Irish immigrants that were victims of "ship fever."

A building claimed to be London’s smallest house has an obscure history.

Germany’s oldest monastery has origins dating back to the 7th century.

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.

This bullfighting museum is part of a bullfighting coliseum (plaza de toros) built in the 18th century.

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

These long, lean figures pay tribute to the daring feats of the historical raftsmen of Catalonia.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.