Ämari, Estonia
Ämari Pilots’ Cemetery
This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.
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Ämari, Estonia
This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.
Menton, France
Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.
Ipswich, England
This public bathroom is guarded by a flyswatter-wielding army major.
Tokyo, Japan
The enigmatic symbol on this incineration plant's smokestack is, in fact, a one-of-a-kind clock.
Whanganui, New Zealand
This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.
Diani Beach, Kenya
Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Leiden, Netherlands
A tiny house showcases the busy life of a local gnome.
Schiphol, Netherlands
A solid steel plane designed to catch fire over and over again.
Mae Klong, Thailand
Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.
Brooklyn, New York
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
Brooklyn, New York
Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.
Fairford, England
A rampant horde of demons smirk and snarl at visitors to this church, home to a rare complete set of medieval-era stained glass windows.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Edinburgh, Scotland
As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.
Swindon, England
This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.
Magdeburg, Germany
The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."