A beloved tribute to the Fab Four and the freedoms they inspired.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

This retro, UFO-like structure is a remnant of the Soviet-era circus.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.