New Taipei City, Taiwan
Wanli UFO Village
A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.
Places I've been
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New Taipei City, Taiwan
A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.
Seoul, South Korea
Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.
Beijing, China
The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.
Gorno Nerezi, North Macedonia
See gorgeous frescoes at this modest Byzantine place of worship.
Yerevan, Armenia
These ruins of a Soviet children's railway station have a haunted atmosphere.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Orgov, Armenia
An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.
Tskaltubo, Georgia
The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.
Newport, Wales
The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.
Birmingham, England
England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.
Coventry, England
The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.
Medway, England
This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
London, England
Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.
London, England
These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
Where the dead once lay, art now plays.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
Belgrade, Serbia
Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.