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Tiptree Jam Museum entrance.

Tiptree, England

Tiptree Jam Museum

As the Royal Family's jam supplier, this museum displays relics from the two world wars, farm equipment, a four legged chick, and other curiosities.

Macedonian Tomb of Agios Athanasios

Agios Athanasios, Greece

Macedonian Tomb of Agios Athanasios

A late 4th-century BC archaeological wonder located just outside the suburbs of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Iron Fountain Gyumri

Gyumri, Armenia

Iron Fountain Gyumri

It's a massive, rusted fountain that survived an earthquake in 1988.

Berlin Wall Memorial

Berlin, Germany

Berlin Wall Memorial

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

The full sweep of the wall, with the star panel at its centre.

Baku, Azerbaijan

The Press Mosaic

The façade of Soviet Azerbaijan's state printing house is shaped like an open book, inlaid with writing systems from Egyptian hieroglyphs to a Mayan calendar.

Durham Town Hall

Durham, England

Durham Town Hall

Discover the unique history of Durham from the 14th century to the present day.

Museum of Cycladic Folklore

Aliki, Greece

Museum of Cycladic Folklore

This old museum contains dozens of detailed miniature ships and buildings.

The ferryman statue
Permanently Closed

Wicklow, Ireland

Victor’s Way Indian Sculpture Park

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The architect calls the house the "world's largest piece of pottery."

Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Casa Terracota

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

Front facade

Cardiff, Wales

Insole Court

Beautiful Victorian mansion on Cardiff's outskirts was once the family home of a South Wales coal mining dynasty.

Skanderbeg Memorial

Lezhë, Albania

Skanderbeg Memorial

The mausoleum of a national hero of Albania is placed in a former church and mosque

Main Post Office, Skopje, 1974

Skopje, North Macedonia

Post Office and Telecommunications Center

A Brutalist architectural gem hidden among Skopje’s neoclassical buildings.

The War Memorial Tablet

Manchester, England

Manchester Victoria Station Map Mural & War Memorials

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

Moszna Castle

Moszna, Poland

Moszna Castle

Once tied to Templar legend and later to Prussian counts, this fairy-tale palace has witnessed centuries of Polish history

The Green Children of Woolpit.

Woolpit, England

Woolpit Village Sign

A rather creepy sign alludes to the bizarre and famous history of the "green children of Woolpit"

The statue at the entrance.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kwai Chai Hong

An interactive back-alley mural project remembers the golden age of Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown.

Detail of a mural.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Bukit Bintang Street Art Alleys

Cartoon clouds and nature-inspired murals have transformed the streets of Kuala Lumpur.

Porcelain Room

Aranjuez, Spain

Porcelain Room

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

Resortes, el jarabe tapatío y la orchata

Tlalnepantla, Mexico

World's Largest Tortilla

This sculpture with hundreds of details made from corn dough was named the largest tortilla in the world in 2013

Front Door, Buchenstrasse 26, Prerow

Prerow, Germany

The Darß Front Doors Path

Richly carved, brightly painted doors that turned small fishing villages into open-air showcases

Computer Game Museum Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Computer Game Museum Berlin

The Guinness Book acknowledged one of the biggest and oldest collections of computer games, featuring a strange 'pain machine' that blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real world

Edificio Tehuacán

Mexico City, Mexico

Art-Decó Condesa Buildings

This neighborhood was built in the golden age of Art-Decó, and its buildings are essential to understanding this style

Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

Fountain and giant Ruhnama at Independence Park in Ashgabat.

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Giant Ruhnama

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

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