Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's Ghost Tower: The Sathorn Unique
On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.
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Bangkok, Thailand
On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.
Muynak District, Uzbekistan
Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.
Kantubek, Uzbekistan
Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.
Lithuania
Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.
Kaunas, Lithuania
A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Miyakejima, Japan
Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.
Kronshtadt, Russia
Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.
Evenkiysky District, Russia
Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
Tomigusuku, Japan
Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.
Corsham, England
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.
Rapa Nui, Chile
The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.
Calipatria, California
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
Pacific Ocean, United States
Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Nor Yungas, Bolivia
Death road of Bolivia.
Banyuputih, Indonesia
Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.
Aralsk, Kazakhstan
Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Vik, Iceland
Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.