Ellinikon used to be the International Airport of Greece and airport of Athens. However, when the new airport was finished in 2001, Ellinikon was abandoned. Now it remains in ruins with old non-functional stripped and abandoned planes are well as empty messy halls and offices. There are many people in the world who love to…
This one of the coolest miniature villages you’ll ever see made by amateurs on a church’s backyard! The idea was to improve the property by adding a rock garden but someone decided to take it too far, or rather far enough as the result is incredible! They created a village with houses, towers, churches and…
Serious question fellow Lazy Penguins: Do you know what Titanic was? (I hope 99.9% of you said yes!). In this post we will show you 35 photos from the construction of Titanic (which began on March 31, 1909). Below you can see a short description from Wikipedia regarding Titanic (for those who don’t know everything…
Spread across Yugoslavia are a lot of monuments that were built decades ago but have for many years been abandoned. What’s impressive about these monuments is that they are unique, designed in unusual and intricate shapes, almost like abstract art. It’s quite unfortunate that such monuments had to be forsaken but apparently maintaining them was…
It took around eight months to Studio Marco Vermeulen in Werkendam (Netherlands) to redesign the Biesboschmuseum and it is finally open to the public (and lazy penguins). There has been a total transformation and extension with a new wing that can open to its surroundings. The designers of the museum have included a path) on…
Not long ago we wrote about 10 fairytale places in Romania – here we go again with an article this time. In the interior of a very old salt mine Salina Turda in Transylvania (Romania) is situated the largest museum (worldwide!). In order to go there you need to descent at least 400 feet under…
The following project fellow Lazy Penguins is extremely cool – Søren Poulsen spent twenty five years of his life building a “World Map” on the very banks of the Lake Klejtrup in Denmark. It is a map-project of 4,000-square-meters built exclusively out of soil, stones and grass (final map measures 45 meters by 90 meters)….
Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect with a natural liking for innovative green structures – the architect is supposed to build a 117m-tall (384ft) apartment tower in Lausanne, Switzerland converting it into the first building in the world to be covered in evergreen trees. The building’s (36-story green tower) name is going to be “La Tour…
Sometimes the plans don’t work out the way we want them to and have to be ditched. It’s the same for structures that either lost their purpose or stopped being efficient. Today we’re looking at a special category of such structures, greenhouses! More specifically we’re taking a look at the most mysterious abandoned greenhouses in…
There are people who love to travel and see not only the obvious beauty of a country but also its cultural beauty. This type of people deserve to see the best libraries in the world where centuries of history and literature are concentrated! It’s truly great for people who love reading, peace and quiet to…