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Puente Nuevo.

Ronda, Spain

Puente Nuevo

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

Central Electric Ruins.

Ronda, Spain

Central Electric Ruins

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

Abandoned Skate Park on the Bruce Trail

Hamilton, Ontario

Abandoned Skate Park on the Bruce Trail

An abandoned skate park located in the middle of the wilderness.

Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal

Jersey City, New Jersey

Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Antuni

Castel di Tora, Italy

Ruins of Antuni

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

Ruins on Corregidor Island.

Cavite City, Philippines

Corregidor Island

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

Looking back to the mainland at low tide.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Cramond Ghost Island

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

Brest Hero-Fortress

Brest, Belarus

Brest Hero-Fortress

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Castel Meur

Plougrescant, France

Castel Meur

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

Point Nemo

Antarctica

Point Nemo

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The Island of Inishmaan

Inishmaan, Ireland

The Island of Inishmaan

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

The Seven Churches on Inishmore.

Galway, Ireland

Seven Churches

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

Front view of Castle O'Brien.

Inisheer, Ireland

O'Brien's Castle

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

Silver Jubilee Crystal Crown

London, England

Silver Jubilee Crystal Crown

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Water tower and other building in Fordlandia, Brazil.

Aveiro, Brazil

Fordlândia

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

The "Schlammbeisser" Statue in Giessen

Giessen, Germany

Schlammbeiser Statue

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

Hooray!

London, England

Whitechapel Fatberg Manhole Cover

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

Details of the lamp.

Durham, England

South Bailey Sewer Lamp

These lamps were created to expel sewer gases after an event known as The Great Stink.

View of one of the walkable tunnels.

Brussels, Belgium

Musée des Égouts Bruxelles (Brussels Sewer Museum)

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

Cumil the Sewer Worker

Bratislava, Slovakia

Cumil the Sewer Worker

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Find the lamp on a quiet side street just off the Strand.

London, England

Carting Lane Sewer Lamp

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

Brighton's Victorian Sewers
Permanently Closed

Brighton, England

Brighton's Victorian Sewers

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

A view of the Cloaca Maxima in 1814, as rendered by artist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Rome, Italy

Cloaca Maxima

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

100 Roofs Cafe

Dalat, Vietnam

100 Roofs Cafe

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

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