Botallack, Cornwall
Crown Mine Ruins
These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.
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Botallack, Cornwall
These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.
Ponsanooth, England
A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.
Portugal
An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Vigevano, Italy
The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.
Italy
A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Canale Monterano, Italy
The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.
Graz, Austria
The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Sissach, Switzerland
Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.
Ardino, Bulgaria
An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.
San Martín de la Virgen del Moncayo, Spain
The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.
Sigüés, Spain
A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.
Iglesias, Italy
On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.
Monreale, Italy
Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.
Poggioreale, Italy
This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.
Rangsdorf, Germany
The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.
Favara, Italy
This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.
Murcia, Spain
Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.
Palos de la Frontera, Spain
Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.