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Botanic Gardens station platform.

Glasgow, Scotland

Botanic Gardens Railway Station

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

The House of Automata

Forres, Scotland

The House of Automata

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

The Heart of Midlothian marks the former entrance to the Old Tolbooth.

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Heart of Midlothian

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

St. Bernard's Well

Edinburgh, Scotland

St. Bernard's Well

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

Chess set

Kuji, Japan

The Kuji Amber Museum

You can fulfill your childhood dream of becoming a paleontologist by digging for your own amber fossils.

Memorial lightboxes

Rīga, Latvia

Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum

A somber place of memory and reflection, that tells the story of Riga's Jewish community before and during World War II.

House of Egyptian Architecture

Cairo, Egypt

House of Egyptian Architecture

This well-preserved Ottoman-era Cairene mansion hosts a facinating archive of Egyptian architecure, from the pharaohs and sultans to the modern day.

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
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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.

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