Leeds, England
St. Aidan's BE1150 Dragline
The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.
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Leeds, England
The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.
Menston, England
Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Ruthin, Wales
This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.
Hamburg, Germany
Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
London, England
A student driver's nightmare.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
Zwiggelte, Netherlands
A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Salzburg, Austria
Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.
Swindon, England
This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Zwentendorf, Austria
Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
Charleroi, Belgium
The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.