Places Edited by petrolwife

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

Something's watching you.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."