Worcester, Massachusetts
Bancroft Tower
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Akureyri, Iceland
Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?
Bíldudalur, Iceland
The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.
Steingrímsfjörður, Iceland
A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.
Huesca, Spain
A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.
Laois, Ireland
A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.
Istra, Russia
A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.
Cricket Saint Thomas, England
The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.
Vis, Croatia
Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.
Korčula, Croatia
When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.
Trinidad and Tobago
This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.
London, England
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
London, England
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
London, England
Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.
Saint-Ouen, France
An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.
Arras, France
An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Heuvelland, Belgium
A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.
Margate, England
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.
Dungeness, England
An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.