United States Minor Outlying Islands
Jarvis Ghost Island
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
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United States Minor Outlying Islands
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
Nasugbu, Philippines
This Philippine island is dotted with (fake) Grecian ruins.
Mitsero, Cyprus
Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.
Egkomi, Cyprus
This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.
Lefkoşa, Cyprus
The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.
Omodos, Cyprus
This medieval wine press is one of the oldest in Cyprus.
Nicosia, Cyprus
This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.
Larnaca, Cyprus
Ancient stone dildos and other odd pieces of medical history are displayed at this quirky Cyprus gem.
Finike, Cyprus
A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.
Famagusta, Cyprus
A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.
Kolossi, Cyprus
This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.
Larnaca, Cyprus
Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.
Paphos, Cyprus
An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.
Larnaca, Cyprus
The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.
Nicosia, Cyprus
A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.
Cizhong, China
This Tibetan and Naxi village's Honey Rose wine bears the mark of 19th-century French missionaries.
Port Eynon, Wales
This tall stone wall with no door and ill-matched windows was built centuries ago, and used as a shelter for domesticated pigeons.
Berlin, Germany
A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.
Hadiyah, Saudi Arabia
Once a major stop on the Hejaz Railway, this desert station (complete with steam locomotive) has been abandoned for decades.
Newcastle, Australia
The oldest remaining theatre in New South Wales.
Qesm Hurghada, Egypt
A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.
Liberty, New York
This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.