Nieuwpoort, Belgium
'Searching for Utopia'
A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.
Places I've been
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Nieuwpoort, Belgium
A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.
Ostend, Belgium
The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.
Ostend, Belgium
The last Oostende trawler to fish off Iceland is now a museum.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Kemzeke, Belgium
A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.
Stekene, Belgium
Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.
Antwerp, Belgium
Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.
Zagreb, Croatia
This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.
Tambon Saen Suk, Thailand
Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.
Da Nang, Vietnam
This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.
Da Nang, Vietnam
This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.
Hội An, Vietnam
One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.
Pristina, Kosovo
A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.
Pristina, Kosovo
A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.
Pristina, Kosovo
This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
Gjirokaster, Albania
This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.
Durrës, Albania
The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.