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Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum
The history and future of cannabis.
52.3719, 4.8974
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A'DAM Lookout and Over The Edge Swing
This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.
52.3841, 4.9029
Liverpool, England
St Johns Beacon
The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.
53.4062, -2.9820
Truskavets, Ukraine
Eternity Restaurant
Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.
49.2806, 23.5050
Kyiv, Ukraine
One Street Museum Death Mask Collection
The largest collection of death masks in Ukraine.
50.4621, 30.5175
Kyiv, Ukraine
Tatiana Pick's Psychedelic Hallway
Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.
50.5251, 30.6020
Kyiv, Ukraine
Kachalka
Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.
50.4500, 30.5755
Kyiv, Ukraine
Osokorky Metro Station
This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.
50.3955, 30.6165
Dnipro, Ukraine
Art Center Kvartira
A beautiful art space and unusual mini-hotel hidden in the city center of Dnipro.
48.4634, 35.0431
Odessa, Ukraine
Trade Unions Building
The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.
46.4658, 30.7433
Lviv, Ukraine
Arkhivna Street
This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once.
49.8403, 24.0344
Lviv, Ukraine
Lviv Statue of Liberty
This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.
49.8411, 24.0272
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
Ovum II
Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.
50.9509, 29.8820
Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv Crematorium
This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.
50.4158, 30.5056
Kyiv, Ukraine
Tatyana Markus Memorial
A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.
50.4713, 30.4492
Lviv, Ukraine
Citadel Inn
A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.
49.8340, 24.0268
Lviv, Ukraine
Lychakiv Cemetery
Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.
49.8335, 24.0529
Chornobyl, Ukraine
'Monument of the Third Angel'
The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.
51.2726, 30.2241
Kyiv, Ukraine
Peeing Colors in Kyiv
When you've got to go, you've got to go.
50.4562, 30.5114
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
Duga 'Russian Woodpecker' Radar
This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.
51.3060, 30.0663
Kyiv, Ukraine
Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
50.4265, 30.5631
Kyiv, Ukraine
Golden Gate of Kyiv
A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.
50.4488, 30.5133
Prypiat, Ukraine
Abandoned Avanhard Stadium of Prypiat
One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.
51.4106, 30.0544
Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum
This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."
50.4663, 30.5175
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