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This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.