Albania
Fier's Ship House
Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.
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Albania
Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.
Tirana, Albania
Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.
Krujë, Albania
The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Gjirokaster, Albania
This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Përmet District, Albania
A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Stockholm, Sweden
The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.
Boden N, Sweden
A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.
Stockholm, Sweden
An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.
Palmyra, Tennessee
Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Kingston Springs, Tennessee
The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.
Memphis, Tennessee
A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.
Memphis, Tennessee
Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Erwin, Tennessee
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.