Islands

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

This artificial ring island was built to hold cubic tons of polluted dirt.

Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt, a pirate, and multiple wars.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.