Faro, Portugal
Capela de Ossos Bone Chapel
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
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Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Warsaw, Poland
Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.
Police, Poland
This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.
Szałe, Poland
Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.
Błędów, Poland
People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.
Warsaw, Poland
Hundreds of notes give thanks to the patron saint of lost causes.
Wrocław, Poland
Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.
Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland
Dubbed "Wistom" by locals, this abandoned factory is an urban explorer's dream.
Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland
In northeastern Poland, the ruins of a massive granary overlook the Narew River.
Poznań, Poland
An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.
Otwock, Poland
An abandoned Jewish sanatorium is tucked within the woods of Poland.
Wrocław, Poland
A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.
Warsaw, Poland
The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.
Gdynia, Poland
A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.
Gdańsk, Poland
Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II.
Świdnica, Poland
This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.
Warsaw, Poland
A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.
Zakopane, Poland
Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.
Rapa, Poland
A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.
Poland
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Bydgoszcz, Poland
An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.
Krakow, Poland
Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.