Abandoned

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.

An artificial lake that opened in 1930 as a seaplane airport, now a park for aquatic activities.

It could once load ships with tons of coal in an hour before its closing in 1952.

This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.

Soviet-era gates guard an unexpected urban forest—and a future U.S. embassy.

Former Italian settlement on the isle of Rhodes was a WWII command center before being abandoned.