Barcelona, Spain
'El Petó de la Mort' ('The Kiss of Death')
A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.
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Barcelona, Spain
A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.
Melbourne, Australia
Occult books, tarot, oddities.
Melbourne, Australia
A unique underground car park that has become a popular filming location.
South Wharf, Australia
This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.
Abbotsford, Australia
This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.
Melbourne, Australia
The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Melbourne, Australia
A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.
Parkville, Australia
Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th-century pharmacy.
Melbourne, Australia
The labyrinthine storm tunnels beneath the city of Melbourne are ruled by a band of urban explorers.
Melbourne, Australia
An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.
Melbourne, Australia
The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.
Garden Island, Australia
The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.
Xilitla, Mexico
This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.
Brooklyn, New York
This recipe is set in stone.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Casa Grande, Arizona
This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.
Augsburg, Germany
In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.
Brunswick, Georgia
This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.
Wadi Halfa, Sudan
These pillars are one of the few remnants from the mysterious lost empire of Makuria.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Grants, New Mexico
A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
Westminster, Massachusetts
One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.