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Intricate metal sculpture that's half gothic cathedral, half construction equipment.

The world's largest bicycle shelter can hold more than 12,500 two-wheelers.

See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.

A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.