Vienna, Austria
Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
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Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
London, England
If your school was decorated with trippy graffiti, served ambrosial coffee, and was frequented by mimes, it might have been similar to this groovy cafe.
Kłobuck County, Poland
The oldest wind turbine in Europe, constructed by a group of friends in 1932.
Bude, England
A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.
Roquemaure, France
Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.
Whitby, England
The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.
New York, New York
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Ocean Falls, British Columbia
Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.
Rubi, Spain
Cursed swimming pool left abandoned is now a favorite of filmmakers and ghost hunters.
Famagusta, Cyprus
A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Ocaklı Köyü, Turkey
An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.
Fábrica de Orbaitzeta, Spain
Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Holywell, Wales
Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.
Santa Ynez, California
The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.
Peru
An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."
Cincinnati, Ohio
An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.