Nottingham, England
Sneinton Dragon
When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.
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Nottingham, England
When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.
Whipsnade, England
This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.
Bologna, Italy
Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
Peterborough, England
The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.
Barnsley, England
These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.
Thirsk, England
England's largest white horse isn't even white.
Meyrin, Switzerland
CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.
Derby, England
This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.
Seattle, Washington
Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.
Santa Clara, Cuba
This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.
Playa Girón, Cuba
A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.
Dunbar, Scotland
At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.
Eureka, North Carolina
A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.
Denver, Colorado
A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.
Meyrin, Switzerland
This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.
Istanbul, Turkey
Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.
Istanbul, Turkey
This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.
Sigüés, Spain
A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.
Ordino, Andorra
Some of the smallest works of art in existence.