Faro, Portugal
Capela de Ossos Bone Chapel
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
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Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Prague, Czechia
Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.
Beli plast, Bulgaria
In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Budapest, Hungary
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.
Lopar, Croatia
The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.
Olenivka, Ukraine
Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
San Fruttuoso, Italy
A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.
Dmitrovsky District, Russia
A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.
Red Hook, New York
For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Iceland
Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.
Djúpivogur, Iceland
This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.
Želízy, Czechia
Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Krusevo, North Macedonia
Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.
Malička, Croatia
This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.
Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina
These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.
Koracica, Serbia
This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
Shumen, Bulgaria
This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Budapest, Hungary
A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.