Abandoned

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

A strategically positioned fortress that protected the Fazana channel has found new life as a place for theater.

This 30-foot-high statue of Christ was intended to be part of a prehistoric theme park.

This site contains preserved ruins and industrial remnants of Western Australia's mining heritage.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

This hiking trail is scattered with the remains of a failed attempt to provide water to farmers in Dry Fork Canyon.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

This abandoned building, which is the second-largest structure on the Maltese island of Comino, has a complicated past.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

This Belgian observatory bears a striking resemblance to Futurama's Planet Express building.

This deserted town in the hills of Croatia’s "party island" may have a scandalous connection to King Henry VIII.