Places

As one of the tallest hotels in the world, the Ryugyong Hotel has quite a story, and that's before it has even opened its doors to the awaiting, (and one will assume mostly foreign) public. The structure,...

As part of our series of articles on strange architecture, it is time to take a look at the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew complex in north-east Thailand. Better known as The Million Bottle Temple, the...

Maqar-el -thartar palace, lake Thartar, June 11, 2003. Credit: Marco Di Lauro Absolute power can be a terrifying prospect in any society. With out the necessary checks and balances that modern...

Witley Park is an intriguing abandoned place in the middle of the English countryside. Many of the photographs you see here are of a hidden space that sits beneath a man-made lake next to the massive estate...

In the 1980s the Department of Energy began designing what would have been the largest and most energetic particle accelerator in the world. America's Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) would have broken...

On Maho Beach, on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, there is more to do than just sunbathe and swim. The beach is located right next to Princess Juliana Airport, giving tourists the unique experience of...

According to former Scientologists and a key member overseeing the construction of the site, this sprawling complex deep in the San Bernardino mountains is the main headquarters for the Church of Spiritual...

Justo Gallego Martinez, an 89-year-old farmer and former monk from Spain, has spent over 50 years of his life single-handedly building a large cathedral in a suburb of Madrid. He has no prior architectural...

Leif Sonne likes beer bottles. The engineer from a small town called Svendborg in Denmark has been collecting unopened bottles of beer since 1968. Over the past 46 years he has amassed a collection of over...

The Scuola Gladiatori Roma is the only traditional gladiator school in the world. It is not set up as tourist attraction, but as a fully fledged training academy where students learn the full range of...