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Vienna Pestsaule (Plague Column)

Vienna, Austria
Bunker in Albania countryside.

Bunkers of Albania

Albania
Stones and Henge, respectively.

Stonehenge World Heritage Site

Salisbury, England

Pollock's Toy Museum

London, England

The Cross Bones Graveyard

London, England
Soldiers marching through the Menin Gate (before the modern structure) at the start of WWI

Menin Gate Memorial

Ypres, Belgium
Inside the Giant Buddha are hundreds of chambers containing thousands of lifesize sculptures depicting scenes from the life of Buddha as well as scenes from Buddhist hell.

Win Sein Taw Ya

Mudon, Myanmar

Temple Church

London, England
Yasmine, the first mummy discovered in the 'Asi-al-Hadath grotto.

Maronite Mummies of the Qadisha Valley

Beirut, Lebanon
Turkish Tent, Painshill Park.

Painshill Park Follies

Cobham , England
Royal Botanic Gardens

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Sydney , Australia
A guillotine from the war

War Remnants Museum

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Banff Springs Hotel

Banff, Canada
Photo CC license "Emily Webber" of www.londonshopfronts.com

Get Stuffed

London, England
(Flickr/davduf)

Tirana's Colorful Facade

Albania

Highgate Cemetery

London, England

Syri i Kalter - The Blue Eye

Albania
CC Flickr photo by racoles

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda

Mon State, Myanmar
Wings set against a sunny sky (Flickr/PaulDCocker)

The Angel of the North

Gateshead, England
The long view of Cooper's Row

London Wall

London, England
London Stone

The London Stone

London, England
The Navigators, by David Kemp.

The Navigators

London, England

Museum of Prosciutto di Parma

Parma, Italy

Prague Astronomical Clock

Prague, Czech Republic

London's Lilliputian Police Station

London, England

Museum of American Finance

New York City, New York
John Snow Memorial Pump and the John Snow Pub

Broad Street Cholera Pump

London, England
Allies by Lawrence Holofcener. (Wikimedia Commons)

Allies Sculpture

London, England

Fier's Ship House

Albania
View of the Cable Car from below (Wikimedia Commons)

Jounieh Cable Car

Lebanon
Horses - Stables Market

Stables Market

London, United Kingdom
A circular outline marks the underground location of the Roman amphitheater

Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater

London, England
Sagrat Cor, the church at the very top of Tibidabo. (Wikimedia Commons)

Tibidabo

Barcelona, Spain
Private Passage. (Andriy Boychuk/Atlas Obscura)

Private Passage

New York, New York

Columbia Icefield

Jasper, Canada
(Flickr/fidelramos)

Oude Kerk

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Scotland's Secret Bunker

St.Andrews, Scotland
Entrance to the chapel - Photo by Treeswithknees

Santa Cova of Montserrat

Catalonia, Spain
Ware Hall in its relocated condition at Wells-Next-the-Sea.

Ware Hall House

Wells-Next-the-Sea, England
House in the clouds.

House in the Clouds

Thorpeness, England
Ben Lomond and Loch Lomond as seen from the grounds of Ross Priory. (Margaret MacGillivray/Atlas Obscura)

Loch Lomond

Gartocharn, Scotland
Golden Hinde in London

Replica of the Golden Hinde

London, England

Hampton Court Maze

Richmond upon Thames, England

Cultybraggan WWII POW Camp

Perth, Scotland
The Prague Metronome slicing through summer skies. (Macskafaraok/Flickr)

Prague Metronome

Prague, Czech Republic
Exterior of the Old New Synagogue.

Old New Synagogue

Prague, Czech Republic

Carmo Convent Ruins

Lisbon, Portugal

The Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monastery at the top of Mount Popa (Flickr/antwerpenR)

Mount Popa

Myanmar

The Hoodoos of Drumheller Valley

Drumheller, Canada

Beazer Garden Maze

Bath, England
Zizkov Tower. (freefoto/Flickr)

Zizkov Tower

Prague, Czech Republic

The Torture Museum

Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Vashon Island Bike Tree

Vashon, Washington
The circular patterns also form in the light vegetation and plant life of the arid desert locales

Fairy Circles of Southern Africa

Namibia

Pamukkale Water Terraces

Denizli, Turkey
Photo by Carrie Burnett

Detroit Salt Mine

Detroit, Michigan

Devil's Tower

Devils Tower, Wyoming
Bicheno Blowhole. (Prasit Mankad/Flickr)

Bicheno Blowhole

Bicheno, Australia

Giant Crossword of Lviv

L'viv, Ukraine

Greatstone Sound Mirrors

Greatstone, England

Meteor Crater

Winslow, Arizona

Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

Lake Abbe

Djibouti
Reef rocker shredding in the Yellow Submarine.

Underwater Music Festival

Big Pine Key, Florida
The final chamber of the Fleet Sewer.

The Lost River Fleet

London, England

The Garret

Bloomington, Indiana

City Hall Station

New York, New York
Sunlight beams into the Cenote (Flickr/soyignatius)

Cenote Xkeken

Valladolid, Mexico
Richat Structure seen from above.

Richat Structure

Ouadane, Mauritania

The Wildgoose Memorial Library

London, England

Ostrog Monastery

Montenegro

Goldbar

New York, New York

Palace of Winds

Jaipur, India

Hierve el Agua Stone Waterfalls

Mexico

Arecibo Observatory

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Blue Lagoon of Buxton

Buxton, England

Marble Caves of Chile Chico

Chile Chico, Chile

Fingal's Cave

Staffa, Scotland

Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker

Kelvedon Hatch, England

Bridge to Nowhere

Los Angeles, California

Kawah Ijen

East Java, Indonesia

The World Discoverer

Solomon Islands
Cerny's massive installation in Belgium. (Creative Commons)

Entropa

Plzeň, Czech Republic

Midlina

Iceland

Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse

Denmark

The Gates of Hell

Derweze, Turkmenistan
A closer look on the niche of the Great Buddha

Site of the Bamiyan Buddhas

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

The Doomed City of Doel

Doel, Belgium
A rusted fleet sits crumbling in the sunbaked desert

Moynaq

Moynaq, Uzbekistan
USS Iowa - now relocated to LA

Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet

Benecia, California
This hotel is between Neltume and Pto. Fuy. It was built in 2001 and has the shape of a mountain, made of stone. In winter, it is covered completly with snow.

The Magic Mountain Hotel

Chile
The lakes are known for their deep blue waters (Wikimedia Commons)

Band-e Amir Lakes

Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan

Ani Ghost City

Ani, Turkey
Hollowed out bar inside the Baobab

Sunland Baobab

South Africa

Valle de la Luna - Moon Valley

Our Lady of Peace, Bolivia
Missionary letters.

Finch and Co Antiques

London, England

Clapham North Deep-Level Air Raid Shelter

London, England

Mars Desert Research Station

Between Giles and Hanksville, Utah

North Ossetia City of the Dead

Russian Federation

Gruta Do Lago Azul: The Blue Lake Grotto

Bonito, Brazil
Lindow Man, on display at the British Museum.

Lindow Man

London, England

Starkenberger Beer Resort

Starkenberg, Austria
Amphitheater at Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon

Utah
Calvary Cemetery (Ludovic Bertron/Photographer)

Calvary Cemetery

Queens, New York
Army sea forts

Maunsell Army Sea Forts

Whitsable, England
Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bathintime/">Fogatada</a>

Wiltshire's Secret Underground City: The Burlington Nuclear Bunker

Corsham, England
Tank with a knot in its conduit (Flickr / lynx961)

Hezbollah Museum of Resistance

Jarjouaa, Lebanon

Fort Zverev

Kronstadt, Russia

Little Finland

Mesquite, Nevada

Wave Rock

Coconino County, Arizona
Lion taxidermy in the Trophy Room

Explorers Club Headquarters

New York City, New York
One of many fishing ships now without fish

Aral Sea

Aralsk, Kazakhstan
Land Entrance to Base

Decommissioned Soviet Sub Base

Balaclava, Ukraine
Varlaam Monastery

Meteora

Meteora, Greece
One of the passages of Las Médulas. (Wikimedia Commons)

Las Medulas

Carucedo, Spain

Margalef

Margalef, Spain

The Singing Ringing Tree

Burnley, England
50-foot waterfalls flow into Hamilton Pool, adding to the natural spring during the wet season.

Hamilton Pool

Austin, Texas
Snowy Mausoleum photo taken by Tony Lewis in 2008.

Kilmorey Mausoleum

London, England

Sark Dark Sky Island

Sark, Channel Islands (UK)
Two Lions

Propeller Island City Lodge

Berlin, Germany
Hanging Lake

Hanging Lake

Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Sol Cinema

Wales

Bangkok's Ghost Tower: The Sathorn Unique

Bangkok, Thailand
Walkways along a hillside

Josep Pujiula Labyrinth

Argelaguer, Spain

Namibia's Space Ball

Windhoek, Namibia

The Amber Room

Pushkin, Russia
Creative Commons by ~ PaulG ~

Scott's Grotto

Ware, England

North Yungas Road

Bolivia

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Cerne Abbas, England
Eden glowing at night.

The Eden Project: The World’s Largest Greenhouse

St. Austell, England
Sunrise over Atitlán.

Lago de Atitlán

Lago de Atitlán, Guatemala

Devil's Swimming Pool

Victoria Falls, Zambia

World’s Quietest Place

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Close-up on the work on one of the ships (www.jungle.eu)

Ship Breaking Yard of Gadani

Gadani, Pakistan
I have been to 53 places and want to visit 83 more!

The Plantation Garden

Norwich, United Kingdom

Cultybraggan WWII POW Camp

Perth, Scotland
I have been to 53 places and want to visit 83 more!

The Plantation Garden

Norwich, United Kingdom
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Gjirokaster Castle Armaments Museum

Gjirokaster, Albania

Cultybraggan WWII POW Camp

Perth, Scotland
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