Nîmes, France
Maison Carrée Reconstructed Inscription
The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.
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Nîmes, France
The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.
Tokyo, Japan
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Yakushima, Japan
The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
Wicklow, Ireland
An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Verzy, France
Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Bishopville, South Carolina
One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, France
Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
Palo Alto, California
Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Munich, Germany
A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.
Bologna, Italy
Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.