Ruins

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Giant money stones of Yap.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.