Places Edited by martofkukuf

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The middle finger of modernity.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.