Hillvue, Australia
Big Golden Guitar
Monument that stands 40 feet and weighs 1,000 pounds.
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Hillvue, Australia
Monument that stands 40 feet and weighs 1,000 pounds.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Goulburn, Australia
Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.
Hexham, Australia
Modeled after the big, ferocious Hexham Grey mosquito.
Rookwood, Australia
The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.
Katoomba, Australia
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.
Chornobyl, Ukraine
The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.
Vyshhorods'kyi district, Ukraine
Marvel at the excessive luxury of the ousted Ukrainian president's former estate.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.
Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.
Trieste, Italy
During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.
Predjama, Slovenia
Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.
Minski rajon, Belarus
Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.