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Charlie.

Adelaide River, Australia

Charlie the Water Buffalo

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.

A tire that has been lying around for a long time.

Årjäng SV, Sweden

Båstnäs Car Cemetery

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

(Flickr/Björn Söderqvist)

Malmö, Sweden

Turning Torso

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

Some of the toys "living" in the tunnel

Stockholm, Sweden

Lost Toys of the Nybohov Funicular

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

Car at the car graveyard

Tingsryd SV, Sweden

Kyrkö Car Cemetery

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

Li Grave Stones

Kungsbacka, Sweden

Li Grave Stones

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

Ales Stenar

Ystad, Sweden

Ales Stenar

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

Øresund Bridge

Malmö, Sweden

Øresund Bridge

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Nimis in Ladonia

Höganäs, Sweden

Nimis in Ladonia

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

R1 Nuclear Reactor

Stockholm, Sweden

R1 Nuclear Reactor

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

Colour by Numbers

Stockholm, Sweden

Colour by Numbers

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

Coke II
Permanently Closed

Helsingborg, Sweden

Museum of Failure

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.

Stomatol Sign

Stockholm, Sweden

Stomatol Sign

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

Pionen's Network Operations Center. Complete with fog.

Stockholm, Sweden

Pionen Data Center

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

Ruthven Barracks.

Kingussie, Scotland

Ruthven Barracks

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

A part of the sconce inside of the office building.

Stockholm, Sweden

Johanneshovs Skans (Johanneshov Sconce)

Part of an abandoned19th-century fortress hides in plain sight inside a modern office building.

Horatio.

Adelaide, Australia

'A Day Out'

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

One of many penguin colonies on Bertha's Beach.

Falkland Islands

Bertha's Beach

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

Water flows from the sticker covered pipe.

Anchorage, Alaska

Beluga Point Fresh Water Spring

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

An exposed boiler of the San Pablo.

Pensacola, Florida

San Pablo Shipwreck

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

The Old Man of Storr.

Isle of Skye, Scotland

The Old Man of Storr

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Diver exploring the shipwreck in Lake Michigan

Maple City, Michigan

The Rising Sun Shipwreck

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

Point Udall

St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Point Udall

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

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