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Ruins

This is the right side of the complex. From here you can see one of the few remaining structures and for some reason a city bus.

Chatsworth, California

LA-88 Nike Missile Site

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns. (matthigh/Flickr)

Death Valley, California

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Catacombs of San Gennaro.

Catacombs of San Gennaro

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

La Cité, Carcassonne

Carcassonne, France

La Cité Médiévale de Carcassonne

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Washington, D.C.

National Capitol Columns

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

The Hecht Company Warehouse saw prosperous days throughout the 1950s. (Library of Congress)

Washington, D.C.

Hecht Company Warehouse

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eastern State Penitentiary

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Kupr, Sierra Leone

Bunce Island

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

Skellig Michael

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

(Justus Hayes/Shoes on Wires/shoesonwires.com/Flickr)

Coquitlam, British Columbia

Riverview Hospital

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

The town of Visoko in 1973 with the "Pyramid of the Sun" in the background. (Wikimedia Commons)

Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Visočia, the Bosnian Pyramid of Visoko

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

Missile Hanger as seen from the outside.

Türisalu, Estonia

Turisalu Missile Hangar

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

Kazanlak, Bulgaria

Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

East Haddam, Connecticut

Gillette Castle State Park

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

Örencik, Turkey

Gobekli Tepe

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

The Three Royal Mounds.

Uppsala, Sweden

Royal Mounds of Gamla Uppsala

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

Permanently Closed

A high dynamic range (HDR) image of the building.

South Bay, Florida

Gatorland

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

Stones bordering the Rhododendron pavilion.

San Francisco, California

Spanish Monastery Stones

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.