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The Grand Canyon of Texas.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Remember and reflect at this 9/11 memorial site.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.

The tallest statue in Italy is also one of the world's tallest statues of Jesus.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

Remains of a cargo ship that wrecked in 1988.

Frederick II died at this forgotten castle in Puglia, Italy.

This lake was sacred to the Sabine people who constructed a temple here on a floating island.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.