Helsinki, Finland
Pohjola Insurance Building
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
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Helsinki, Finland
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Helsinki, Finland
Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.
Tallinn, Estonia
The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.
Tallinn, Estonia
The Guardian of Tallinn.
Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Mattoon, Illinois
The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.
Ashmore, Illinois
This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."
Gays, Illinois
This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.
Effingham, Illinois
Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Memphis, Tennessee
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
Alto Pass, Illinois
Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.
Metropolis, Illinois
You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Chester, Illinois
The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.
Staunton, Illinois
This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Chicago, Illinois
These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.
Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Chicago, Illinois
This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.