(Image: Colegota, cc-sa-2.5 Spain)

The next installment of our weekly link round-up from friends, partners and the sites we admire covers an array of oddities from the ancient to the modern world, including grinning skeletons, repurposed architecture, art found in and around abandoned buildings, ghost towns and – of course – a spot of urban exploration.

The Grinning Skeletons of Peru’s 1000-Year-Old Nazca Cemetery (Environmental Graffiti)

Photographs of Chernobyl and the Ghost Town of Pripyat (Telegraph Travel)

Artistic Photos of Abandoned Buildings (Design Your Way)

Cool Art in Abandoned Places (Neatorama)

The World’s Top 10 Weird Towns (Fortean Times)

Repurposed Architecture: The Shopping of the Bulls at Barcelona’s Las Arenas (Core 77)

Abandoned Places and Urban Exploration (Opacity)

The Harrowing Lives of Child Miners in the Early 1900s (Environmental Graffiti)