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Fier's Ship House

Albania

Fier's Ship House

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

Display in one of the original bunker rooms.

Tirana, Albania

Bunk'Art

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Krujë Castle in Albania.

Krujë, Albania

Krujë Castle

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

(Flickr/davduf)

Tirana, Albania

Tirana's Colorful Facade

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

Gjirokaster Castle

Gjirokaster, Albania

Gjirokaster Castle

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Bunker in Albania countryside.

Elbasan County, Albania

Bunkers of Albania

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Pyramid of Tirana

Tirana, Albania

Pyramid of Tirana

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

The medieval bridge, with the hot springs nearby.

Përmet District, Albania

Benja Thermal Baths

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

Syri i Kalter: The Blue Eye

Sarandë District, Albania

Syri i Kalter: The Blue Eye

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Stockholm Public Library

Stockholm, Sweden

Stadsbiblioteket (Stockholm Public Library)

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

Treehotel

Boden N, Sweden

Treehotel

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

The Codex Gigas (the Devil's Bible) open to the portrait of the devil.

Stockholm, Sweden

Codex Gigas (The Devil's Bible)

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

R1 Nuclear Reactor

Stockholm, Sweden

R1 Nuclear Reactor

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

T-Centralen

Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm Metro Art Gallery

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Walnut Street Bridge

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Walnut Street Bridge

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

E.T. Wickham Sculpture Trail

Palmyra, Tennessee

E.T. Wickham Sculpture Trail

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

3-15-21

Knoxville, Tennessee

The Sunsphere

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Montgomery Bell Tunnel

Kingston Springs, Tennessee

Montgomery Bell Tunnel

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

Signal Mountaint's spaceship house

Signal Mountain, Tennessee

Spaceship House

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

Climbing the Lookout Mountain Incline.

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Lookout Mountain Incline Railway

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Model of the Mississippi at Mud Island River Park

Memphis, Tennessee

Mud Island River Park

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Silky O'Sullivan's

Memphis, Tennessee

Silky O'Sullivan's

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The Crystal Shrine Grotto

Memphis, Tennessee

The Crystal Shrine Grotto

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

One of the two remaining structures of Lost Cove

Erwin, Tennessee

Lost Cove Settlement

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

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