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Eureka, North Carolina

Goldsboro Nuclear Mishap

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

meltingknight

Added by meltingknight

Denver, Colorado

Hidden Elves at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Meyrin, Switzerland

Nataraj Statue (The CERN Shiva)

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

EdgarMedina

Added by EdgarMedina

Istanbul, Turkey

Panorama 1453 Museum

Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.

serflac

Added by serflac

Istanbul, Turkey

Museum of Energy

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Sigüés, Spain

Abandoned Village of Esco

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Added by theptyza

Ordino, Andorra

The Miniature Museum

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

Blindcolour

Added by Blindcolour

Park of the Sleepless (El Parque de los Desvelados)

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

serflac

Added by serflac

Canfranc, Spain

Canfranc International Railway Station

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

serflac

Added by serflac

Barú, Colombia

Pablo Escobar's Abandoned Secret Island Mansion

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Villavieja, Colombia

Tatacoa Desert

Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

Mariana Zapata

Added by Mariana Zapata

Puerto Triunfo, Colombia

Hacienda Nápoles

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

Dylan

Barranquilla, Colombia

Train Track To Nowhere

A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.

freebornaiden

Added by freebornaiden

Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Museo El Fósil

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

quiubosimone

Added by quiubosimone

Covehithe, England

Ruins of St Andrew's Covehithe

A 17th-century church is nestled within the walls of a 15th-century ruin.

Blackswan

Added by Blackswan

Stepped Tanks of Hampi

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.

Added by ToriElliott

Durham, England

Durham Obelisk

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

Added by rjmoss

Munich, Germany

Weiße Rose Pavement Memorial

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Added by DoctorMoog42

Munich, Germany

Eisbachwelle

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Garching bei München, Germany

Parabolic Slides

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

Added by astrophysicist2b

Brihuega, Spain

Cívica

This enchanting hamlet carved into the rock looks like something straight out of Tolkien's Rivendell.

Added by Jimmyp48

Brussels, Belgium

Royal Train Station

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

Added by Kamielus

Mahila Baag Jhalra

Hidden in the shadow of a rocky fortress is one concubine’s long-forgotten legacy.

Victoria Lautman

Added by Victoria Lautman

Valletta, Malta

Valletta Tunnels

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

Added by ToriElliott