Dingolfing, Germany
Dingolfing Ossuary
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
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Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Spetses, Greece
Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.
Edessa, Greece
Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.
Konitsa, Greece
One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.
Athens, Greece
The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.
Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
Hilo, Hawaii
Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
Narusawa-mura, Japan
A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."
Lakki, Greece
This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.
Selçuk, Turkey
Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.
Sultaniye Köyü, Turkey
The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.
Kuşadası, Turkey
A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Athens, Greece
A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.
Agrilos, Greece
A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.
Messinia, Greece
Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.
Athens, Greece
The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.
Lasithi, Greece
This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.
Acharnes, Greece
The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.
Athens, Greece
This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.
Athens, Greece
The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.
Athens, Greece
The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.
Athens, Greece
This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.