Abandoned

A folly hidden in the woods that once became home to a cowherd.

A little piece of railroad history preserved on a narrow-gauge railway

Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.

This largely abandoned village was home to a bustling mining community in the Soviet era.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

Beautiful Romanesque arches in a recently rediscovered century old underground reservoir.

A rock and sand industrial site returns to its natural habitat.

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.

The oldest flagstone charcoal kiln in New England serves as a reminder of the importance of land conservation and sustainability.

Relics designed to contain and conceal Yugoslavian submarines.

Czechoslovakia’s first competition pool, now a decaying ruin of a functionalist marvel.

A World War I German experimental concrete plant, hidden deep in a French forest.

One of “America’s Most Endangered Historic Places” is a building shaped like a giant turtle.

An intersection between architecture, industrial construction, machine, and scientific instrument.

Rusting hulk stands in testament to the Keweenaw Peninsula’s rich history of copper mining.