Barbados
Project HARP Space Gun
A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.
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Barbados
A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.
London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
Goldvein, Virginia
These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.
Quincy, Massachusetts
This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.
Pantelleria, Italy
This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.
Otsuchi, Japan
A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.
Hiroshima, Japan
An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.
London, England
The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.
Washington, D.C.
Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Ardtalnaig, Scotland
Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
Markaz Al Belina, Egypt
Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.
Bhubaneswar, India
Built in a perfect square, this archaeological site is one of the largest and best preserved ancient fortifications in India.
Baghdad, Iraq
A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.
Valletta, Malta
The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.
Chicago, Illinois
This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.
Stockholm, Sweden
This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.
Schönefeld, Germany
This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.
Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain
Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.
Clarence, New York
This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.
Boston, Massachusetts
The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.
Ravenna, Italy
Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.