Vyshhorods'kyi district, Ukraine
Mezhyhirya Residence
Marvel at the excessive luxury of the ousted Ukrainian president's former estate.
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Vyshhorods'kyi district, Ukraine
Marvel at the excessive luxury of the ousted Ukrainian president's former estate.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Split, Croatia
When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Southport, North Carolina
This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.
Keelung City, Taiwan
A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.
Yehliu, Taiwan
This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.
New Taipei City, Taiwan
A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.
Krusevo, North Macedonia
Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.
Ketenovo, North Macedonia
Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.
Green Island, Taiwan
A memorial to the thousands of political dissidents imprisoned during the 40-year period of martial law in Taiwan.
Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.
Iceland
This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.
Gnojnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Swindon, England
There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.
Sudan
All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."
Moldova
This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.
Bender, Moldova
A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.
Chernihiv, Ukraine
One of the largest remaining ancient burial mounds of the 10th century.