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The Fantastical Beauty of Sunken Ruins
Ominous landscapes of aquatic exploration.
Portugal
Drowned Village of Vilarinho da Furna
A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.
Alexandria, Egypt
The Lost City of Heracleion
An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.
Golubac, Serbia
Golubac Fortress
This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.
Uribante, Venezuela
The Drowned Church of Potosi
A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.
Port Royal, Jamaica
Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."
Baia, Italy
The Sunken City of Baia
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Haifa, Israel
Atlit Yam
Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.
Rummu, Estonia
Rummu Underwater Prison
The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.
Rokers Point Settlement, Bahamas
Underwater Plane Wreck Near Staniel Cay
One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.
Berlin, Germany
Teufelsberg
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
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Laser Technology Reveals Cambodian Civilization that 'Rewrites History'
The Khmer empire may have been the world's largest in the 12th century.
Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
Al 'Ula
Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.
Windber, Pennsylvania
Windber Trolley Graveyard
Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.
Ravenglass, England
Ravenglass Roman Bath House
These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.
Zaña, Peru
The Not-So-Abandoned Town of Zaña
After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.
Washington, D.C.
The Capitol Stones
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Permanently Closed
Summerville, Georgia
Corpsewood Manor
Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.
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