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Lady Agnes

Gollenberg, Germany

Lady Agnes

Visitors can tour this retired East German jetliner, and even get married inside.

Teufelsberg

Berlin, Germany

Teufelsberg

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Vespa Muzej Srbija

Belgrade, Serbia

Vespa Muzej Srbija (Vespa Museum Serbia)

A museum dedicated to the classic Italian scooter in the heart of Serbia.

Hugin Longship

Cliffsend, England

Hugin Longship

This longship was a gift to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the Anglo-Saxons arrival in England.

Missiri Mosque

Fréjus, France

Missiri Mosque

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

A hotel.

Šilutė, Lithuania

Šilutės Sekretai

Small glass tiles offering windows into the city's layered past.

Elephants stand on the Sezincote grounds.

Sezincote, England

Sezincote Estate

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

Tunnel from Officer's House.

Zossen, Germany

Wünsdorf Officer's House

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

Arch of Trajan in Benevento

Benevento, Italy

Arch of Trajan in Benevento

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

The Lake Akan Ainu Kotan, Kushiro.

Kushiro, Japan

Lake Akan Ainu Kotan

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

Gamle Færgestræde

Helsingør, Denmark

Gamle Færgestræde

Just off the city’s central station hides a quaint lamp-lit alley into medieval Elsinore.

The mosque  of Bahar-ud-din Bhar

Junagadh, India

Mahabat Maqbara

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

Modhera Sun Temple

Modhera, India

Modhera Sun Temple

An architectural marvel that dates back to the zenith of Indian architecture.

The Gozo Aqueduct.

Kerċem, Malta

Gozo Aqueduct

This 19th-century aqueduct provides insights into how water was supplied to Victoria on the island of Gozo before modern plumbing.

Deer outside Eremitageslottet

Dyrehaven, Denmark

Eremitageslottet (Hermitage Hunting Lodge)

The castle used by the Danish Royal Family as a hunting retreat.

Airport Rangsdorf
Permanently Closed

Rangsdorf, Germany

Abandoned Airfield Rangsdorf

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

Recreation of remains found directly below.

Colchester, England

Colchester’s Roman Circus

It's believed emperor Hadrian himself funded this once architectural wonder.

A curious set with a Gulf War 1 theme

Ankara, Turkey

Gökyay Chess Museum

A collection of over 700 chess sets in a beautiful historic building.

Lügenmuseum

Radebeul, Germany

Lügenmuseum

A museum dedicated to telling lies in service of the truth.

Eggenburg Charnel

Eggenburg, Austria

Eggenburg Charnel

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Burial Tumulus

Taxco, Mexico

Museo De Arte Virreinal (Museum of Viceroyalty Art)

The jewel of the museum is a rare tumulus, a funeral decoration from the 18th century.

Picture taken in April, so the stone work is very mossy.

Bruges, Belgium

Grave of Antoine Michel Wemaer

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

Arch of Marcus Aurelius.

Tarabulus, Libya

Arch of Marcus Aurelius

This triumphal arch is the only fully standing structure that remains from Roman-era Oea.

Treblinka is certainly the most utterly heartbreaking, stomach-turning, wretched place I have ever visited.

Treblinka, Poland

Muzeum Treblinka

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

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