Hamburg, Germany
St. Nicholas' Church
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
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Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Oegstgeest, Netherlands
The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."
Helsinki, Finland
A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.
Waipoua Forest, New Zealand
Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.
Poland
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Gjirokaster, Albania
This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.
Albania
Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Helsinki, Finland
Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.
Espoo, Finland
Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.
Helsinki, Finland
An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Prague, Czechia
Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.
Helsinki, Finland
This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.
Meškuičių seniūnija, Lithuania
An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.
Gruta, Lithuania
Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.
Warsaw, Poland
Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.