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5 Recycled Buildings Made from Bottles, Cans, Bales & Tires

(Check out our complete collection of 70 Works of Recycled Art and Design.) Have you ever thought of recycling as a creative act? To recycle something doesn't necessarily mean just hauling used ...

Buried Cities: 7 (More!) Underground Wonders of the World

The world is full of wonders, from abandoned towns and deserted settlements to underwater cities and underground architecture. Humans burrow into the Earth out of anything from necessity to ...

Cramped City Living: 10 of the World’s Narrowest Houses

(Check out our complete collection of 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World.) Would it surprise you to learn that a number of houses around the world, from New York to Amsterdam and Brazil to ...

Subterranean Scare: 7 Underground Wonders of the World

What motivates humankind to burrow deep into the Earth? From London to Paris, Budapest to Moscow, the USA to Australia, here are seven of the most amazing examples in the world. Some were built ...

Underwater City Ruins: 7 Submerged Wonders of the World

A wealth of human history lies submerged in ancient cities at the bottoms of lakes, seas and oceans of the world. Some of these urban centers were sent into the water via earthquakes, tsunamis or ...

Manhattan of the Desert: Oldest Skyscrapers in the World

Most people think of skyscrapers as inventions of the post-industrial world, characteristic of tightly-packed urban environments. Density in cities is, of course, nothing new. Surprisingly, neither ...

All Gone: 7 (More!) Deserted Wonders of the Modern World

After the overwhelmingly positive responses to and praise for the original 7 Abandoned Urban Wonders article, we were compelled to create a sequel. Thanks to reader-submitted links and locations, ...

Abandoned Cities: 7 Deserted Wonders of the Modern World

(Check out our complete collection of 100+ Abandoned Buildings, Places and Property.) (7) Ghost Towns of the American West are what come to mind for many when they think of abandoned settlements. ...

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