Brest, Belarus
Museum of Confiscated Art
A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Brest, Belarus
A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.
Lake George, New York
This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.
Quilchena, British Columbia
A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.
Milton, Scotland
This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.
Ōshima Island, Japan
This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.
Weatherford, Oklahoma
This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.
Leavenworth, Washington
Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.
Maple Ridge, British Columbia
A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.
Waiotapu, New Zealand
This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.
East Cleveland, Ohio
This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Jelonki, Poland
Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.
Sydney, Australia
This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.
Palatine, Illinois
Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Milton, Delaware
What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.