Prypiat, Ukraine
Canteen 19
The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.
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Prypiat, Ukraine
The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.
Chornobyl, Ukraine
The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.
Point Roberts, Washington
An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.
Cooperstown, North Dakota
These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.
Cavalier, North Dakota
Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.
Nekoma, North Dakota
The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.
Tuttle, North Dakota
Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Cape Reinga, New Zealand
Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.
Stratford, New Zealand
This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.
Palmerston North, New Zealand
A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.
Taupō, New Zealand
Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.
Ohope, New Zealand
The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.
Porangahau, New Zealand
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Cape Palliser, New Zealand
These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.
Fox Glacier, New Zealand
A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.
South Island, New Zealand
The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.
Australia
One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.
Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, New Zealand
The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.
Wentworth Point, Australia
Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.
Solomon Islands
The ship that got left behind.
Landsborough, Australia
This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.
Waddamana, Australia
The decommissioned station is now a museum packed with antiquated hydroelectricity artifacts.