Boston, Massachusetts
Brook Farm
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Boston, Massachusetts
The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Berlin, Germany
Art and a pun, all in one.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Berlin, Germany
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Berlin, Germany
The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.
Tokyo, Japan
An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.
Barcelona, Spain
The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Rouen, France
An ancient ossuary in Rouen.
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.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.
Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France
France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.
Lyon, France
This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.
Vernon, France
A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.
Montrichard Val de Cher, France
Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Allauch, France
Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.