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Raufarhöfn, Iceland

The Arctic Henge

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Holbrook, Arizona

Bucket of Blood Street

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Added by msapocalypse

Berlin, Germany

Georg-von-Rauch-Haus

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Added by DoctorMoog42

Libreria Acqua Alta

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Added by zackofalltrades

Rajsamand, India

The Great Wall of India

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

Added by stevekirsch

Middleton, Wisconsin

National Mustard Museum

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Abhaneri, India

Chand Baori

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Beveren, Belgium

The Doomed City of Doel

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Laetitia Petruzzella

Added by Laetitia Petruzzella

Maltese Catacomb Complexes

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Added by oksanam

Kaymaklı Belediyesi, Turkey

Kaymaklı Underground City

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

Added by Milo Vella

London, England

The Cathedral of Sewage

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

London, England

Crossness Pumping Station

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Musée des Egouts (Paris Museum of Sewers)

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Dylan

Arcozelo, Portugal

Capela do Senhor da Pedra

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Flooded Crypt of San Francesco

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Fremont, California

Berkeley Mystery Walls

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

thirdthreshold

Added by thirdthreshold

Fontana Dei Matti

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

emanuelemannocci

Added by emanuelemannocci

Ostend, Belgium

James Ensor House

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

philoursmars

Added by philoursmars

Haraldskær Woman

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

acclarkey

Added by acclarkey

Silkeborg, Denmark

Tollund Man

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

ronin

Højbjerg, Denmark

Grauballe Man

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

ronin

Margalef, Spain

Margalef

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

serflac

Added by serflac

Sanca, British Columbia

Boswell Embalming Bottle House

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.