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Maunsell Army Sea Forts, England

Feeling introspective and melancholic? Are memories from the Great War getting you down? Do you need a stormy beach to finish writing your Hemingway-esque novel? Used as defense during WWII, these towers lived second lives as pirate radio station, and then a third life as the artist loft you've always wanted.

Off the Coast of Kent, England

[Photo via @joakimsvedung]

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