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Farm Cultural Park

Favara, Italy

Farm Cultural Park

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

The Charles William Jr. House

Somerville, Massachusetts

Charles William Jr. House

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Museum of Communism

Prague, Czechia

Museum of Communism

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The Site of The Garden of the Hesperides

Larache, Morocco

The Site of the Garden of the Hesperides

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

Clootie Well

Munlochy, Scotland

Clootie Well

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

Monument to African Dictator Laurent Kabila

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Monument to African Dictator Laurent Kabila

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

Fort de la Chartreuse

Liège, Belgium

Fort de la Chartreuse

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

Lake Sørvágsvatn

Faroe Islands

Lake Sørvágsvatn

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

Petit Nevis Whaling Station

La Pompe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Petit Nevis Whaling Station

This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.

La REcyclerie

Paris, France

La REcyclerie

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The first gallery.

Italy

Road of 52 Tunnels

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Kelenföld Power Station
Permanently Closed

Budapest, Hungary

Kelenföld Power Station

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

Abandoned Radar Base in Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago

Abandoned Radar Base in Trinidad

This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.

Georg-von-Rauch-Haus

Berlin, Germany

Georg-von-Rauch-Haus

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

The suburb of Patcham in the distance.

Brighton, England

The Chattri

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

Brighton's Victorian Sewers
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Brighton, England

Brighton's Victorian Sewers

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

Ka Lae

Naalehu, Hawaii

Ka Lae

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

Granite Peak

Granite Peak

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

Vajdahunyad Castle

Budapest, Hungary

Vajdahunyad Castle

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History
Permanently Closed

Richfield Springs, New York

Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded
Permanently Closed

Belchertown, Massachusetts

Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

Action mounted taxidermy bobcat and quail.

Apache Junction, Arizona

The Superstition Mountain Museum

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

The "Soul Consoling Tower"

Inyo County, California

Manzanar National Historic Site

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Brighton Waste House

Brighton, England

Brighton Waste House

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

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