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Addicted to the gallows

Not all those who wander are lost. I love all the random, wacky, unique, morbid, unusual and the plain old strange things to see throughout the world.

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Wieliczka, Poland

Wieliczka Salt Mine

An underground city of salt.

michelle

Added by michelle

Oswiecim, Poland

Auschwitz Concentration Camp

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Added by Anglophilia

St. Mary's Basilica

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

gjexcalibur

Added by gjexcalibur

The Bones of the Wawel Dragon

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

TravelTourist

Added by TravelTourist

Rynek Underground

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

kaila

Wawel Dragon's Den

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Added by alimawanderlust83

Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Dampo

Golden Gate of Kyiv

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Added by Kavya Ram Mohan

London, England

The London Dungeon

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Michelle Colburn

Added by Michelle Colburn

Stone Phalluses of Pompeii

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

CoolCrab

Added by CoolCrab

The Brothels of Pompeii

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Thermopolia of Pompeii

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

atimian

Added by atimian

Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Pripyat, Ukraine

Canteen 19

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

Reina Gattuso

Added by Reina Gattuso

Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine

Ovum II

Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.

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Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine

Duga 'Russian Woodpecker' Radar

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Abandoned City of Pripyat

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Added by Delireus

Pripyat, Ukraine

Pripyat Amusement Park

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

Allison

Added by Allison

Pripyat, Ukraine

Abandoned Avanhard Stadium of Pripyat

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Chernobyl, Ukraine

'Monument of the Third Angel'

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

Kerry Wolfe

Added by Kerry Wolfe

Slavutych, Ukraine

Slavutych

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.

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Added by megancstarr

Museum of the Great Patriotic War

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

Added by rmcculloch

Arsenalna Metro Station

The deepest metro station in the world.

SamM

Catacombes de Paris

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.