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pollytravellingcalavera

Freelance journalist and travel blogger with a passion for dark tourism and a love of all things historic.

http://travellingcalavera.com

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Lowell, Massachusetts

The Mysterious Witch Bonney

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Kaunas, Lithuania

Monument to the Victims of Fascism

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

serflac

Added by serflac

Kerið Crater Lake

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

leiris

Added by leiris

Roughlee, England

Alice Nutter Statue

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

chrisslater

Added by chrisslater

Vienna, Austria

Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Segovia Aqueduct

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

philoursmars

Added by philoursmars

Lohmen, Germany

The Bastei

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

Added by Wiingy

Västerås, Sweden

Utter Inn

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Oradour

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Added by ed phillis

New York, New York

The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Berlin, Germany

The DDR Museum

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Berlin, Germany

Buchstabenmuseum

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Added by sonambula

Godalming, England

Witley Wonder Underwater Ballroom

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

St. Catherine of Siena's Severed Head

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Dylan