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Great Emptiness Museum

Orto Say, Kyrgyzstan

Where you'll find anything but nothing. 

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Though this place is called the Great Emptiness Museum, you’ll find anything but emptiness here.

Far south in the outskirts of the capital lies the atelier of Velikoja Pustota, who has created the lucid dream of transcendental art collections within his home. Aside from the vast amount of spiritual paintings he also built an accessible pyramid in which you can be enlightened by swimming in the built-in pool.

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