Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
The Ruins of Central Aguirre
This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.
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Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.
Ramla, Israel
You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.
Derby, England
The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.
Mahopac, New York
This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.
Dublin, Ireland
The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.
São Miguel, Portugal
When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.
Bodmin, England
This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.
Calipatria, California
The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.
Waimes, Belgium
The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.
La Falda, Argentina
This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.
Galway, Ireland
A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.
Yangon, Myanmar
An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.
London, England
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Glen Cove, New York
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Oranienburg, Germany
A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.
Milan, Italy
The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
London, England
The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
Waterford, Connecticut
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
San Lawrenz, Malta
The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.