Places Added by Lana Velkov

As the Royal Family's jam supplier, this museum displays relics from the two world wars, farm equipment, a four legged chick, and other curiosities.

This genuine, blood red Jolly Roger was captured off the North African coast in 1790 by Admiral Richard Curry.

Three people can fit inside this little Serbian Orthodox church carved inside a 500-year-old oak tree.

A Norman castle near Wales that has been in ruins for the last 600 years

A pair of trousers or a dress was hoisted up the shore station’s flagstaff to announce the birth of a baby to the lighthouse keeper working offshore.

A striking symbol of the Troubles, this semi-demolished prison was home to the largest prison escape in the history of the British Isles.

A 3,500-ton British turret steamer, carrying coal, ran aground here in 1914

A fishing trawler that did not even go to sea has been wrecked in Donegal since the 70s

Somewhere in the fields of Somerset, Rome’s famous legend has been sculpted by an Italian prisoner of war in a German bomb crater

Carthusian monks once operated this 18th-century pharmacy, preparing herbal remedies from plants originating in the surrounding mountains

A tea merchant built a dazzling Chinoiserie mansion in the 1890s to impress a Chinese ambassador

An abandoned Sultan's palace in the middle of a park next to one of Singapore's most popular tourist spots

A standalone tombstone dedicated to a fallen civilian Japanese naval engineer

Saddam Hussein’s abandoned 1980s mega yacht is scuttled in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, its name meaning “The Victor”

The decaying giant of Ulster’s lost linen empire.

The bell of HMS Hood is rung every Sunday at this ship-themed church.

The engine block of a British Royal Mail Ship marks the spot of her demise, caused by the Great Gale of 1856.

A chapel dedicated to Saint Sava built on the rugged cliffs of Kablar.

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.

A cave-turned-memorial church marking the site where civilians were killed during an 1814 uprising.

Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.

This abandoned factory once produced Yugoslavia’s iconic Yugo automobile.

The only Baroque residence for bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Banat region.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.