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Yeres, Spain

Las Médulas

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.
California City, California

Lake Shore Inn

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.
Added by hross
Howrah, India

Great Banyan Tree

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.
leiris Added by leiris
Marseille, France

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.
Allison Added by Allison
Qaradagh, Azerbaijan

Neft Dasları

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.
Bollène, France

Barry Troglodyte Village

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.
Added by Chryseis
Copenhagen, Denmark

Freetown Christiania

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.
PaperTiger Added by PaperTiger
Kupr, Sierra Leone

Bunce Island

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.
leiris Added by leiris
Naples, Italy

Gabinetto Segreto

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black
Rabat, Malta

Maltese Catacomb Complexes

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.
Added by oksanam
Hatsukaichi, Japan

Itsukushima Shrine

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.
Heidelberg, Germany

Heidelberg Thingstatte

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Added by Facebook591456907
Hingham, Massachusetts

Old Ship Church

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.
ronin Added by ronin
Northchurch, England

Grave of Peter, the Wild Boy of Hanover

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black
Kaleva, Michigan

The Bottle House

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.
Detroit, Michigan

The Russell Industrial Center

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.
nbj914 Added by nbj914
Detroit, Michigan

Motown Museum

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
nbj914 Added by nbj914
Detroit, Michigan

The Dequindre Cut Greenway

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.
nbj914 Added by nbj914
Detroit, Michigan

Trumbullplex

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."
nbj914 Added by nbj914
Detroit, Michigan

Crow Manor

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.
nbj914 Added by nbj914
Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Church on the Blood

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.
ronin Added by ronin
Brighton, England

Madeira Lift

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.
don21stc Added by don21stc
Moscow, Russia

Tsar Bell

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.
ronin Added by ronin
Buenos Aires, Argentina

El Zanjón de Granados

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.
nbj914 Added by nbj914