Labruge, Portugal
Praia de São Paio
Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.
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Oulu, Finland
Air Guitar World Championships
The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.
Kuopio, Finland
Branch Boy Sculptures
A stick-sprouting statue watching a duo of disembodied dancing deities.
Kuopio, Finland
Puijo Tower
A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.
Iisalmi, Finland
Kuappi
The smallest restaurant in the world.
London, England
Site of the Watkin Tower
London's Victorian Tower of Babel.
Wicklow, Ireland
The Central Shop
Not actually a shop, but one fan's passionate show of support for a rival county's Gaelic football team.
Auchtermuchty, Scotland
Jimmy Shand Statue
A small Scottish town's larger-than-life tribute to the celebrated accordion player.
Barnsley, England
Dickie Bird Statue
This tribute to a beloved cricket umpire is a magnet for risqué pranksters.
Watford, England
The Watford Hornet
Flying high, this unusual hornet statue celebrates the local soccer team formerly owned by Elton John.
Larne, Northern Ireland
Antrim Coast Road Memorial
An unassuming tribute to engineer William Bald and the workers who built one of Europe's most scenic coastal roads.
Talasea, Papua New Guinea
Talasea Airstrip
Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.
Ochopee, Florida
Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport
This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.
Akron, New York
Destroyer Park Golf
A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.
Istanbul, Turkey
Vedat Tek House
The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.
Permanently Closed
Fairbourne, Wales
The Blue Lake
A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.
Yemen
Hababah Water Cistern
A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Felsenkirche (Crag Church)
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Tidal Pools of Leça da Palmeira
An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.
Turukhansky District, Russia
The 'Dead Road' Transpolar Railway
Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.
Canfranc, Spain
Canfranc International Railway Station
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
Bridge to Nowhere
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Bern, Switzerland
Museum of Communication
Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.
Rijeka, Croatia
PEEK&POKE Computer Museum
This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.
