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cairinthecity

Caroline Eubanks is a travel writer from Atlanta, Georgia and the Lowell Thomas award-winning author of This Is My South: The Essential Travel Guide to the Southern States. Her work on the weird and wonderful has been published by Mental Floss, The Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, and Conde Nast Traveler.

https://carolineeubanks.com/

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Ottensheim, Austria

Dasparkhotel

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Vienna, Austria

Gasometer Town

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Vienna, Austria

Museum of Contraception and Abortion

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

Added by wetrock

Tarrenz, Austria

Starkenberger Beer Pools

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

Dylan

Vienna, Austria

Wotruba Church

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Added by reptilebetty

Vienna, Austria

Republic of Kugelmugel

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Josh

Wattens, Austria

Crystal Worlds

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

The Bar at Vernadsky Research Base

One of the world's southernmost bars.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Puquios

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Paddington Bear of Lima

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

aRedLetterLife

Added by aRedLetterLife

The Not-So-Abandoned Town of Zaña

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

chelowhite

Added by chelowhite

Usko Ayar

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

serflac

Added by serflac

Paucartambo, Peru

The Festival of Paucartambo

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

Benjy

Cerro de Pasco, Peru

San Pedro Cemetery of Ninacaca

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

serflac

Added by serflac

Aguas Calientes, Peru

Inca Bridge

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Sarcofagi of Carajía

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Added by pnasrat

Salt Pans of Maras

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Dana Stabenow

Added by Dana Stabenow

Sacsayhuamán

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Added by vivianlefay

Moray

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

leiris

Added by leiris

Skylodge

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

Added by mikaelaabma

Casma District, Peru

Huayllay National Sanctuary

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Chauchilla Cemetery

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Dylan

Convento de San Francisco Ossuary

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Added by zeppomarks

Q'eswachaka Rope Bridge

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Dylan