Terlingua, Texas
Lajitas Ghost Town
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
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Terlingua, Texas
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Inyo County, California
Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.
Bridgeport, California
Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.
Namibia
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Goldfield, Nevada
This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Jerome, Arizona
Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."
Detroit, Michigan
Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
Tonopah, Nevada
In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.
Tustin, California
This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.
Quito, Ecuador
The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.
Punakha, Bhutan
This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."
Irkutsk, Russia
Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.
Bosque, New Mexico
The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.
Marfa, Texas
This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.
Calipatria, California
At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.
Alpine, Texas
This is probably not the Target you're looking for.
Shanghai, China
A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.