Abandoned

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.