San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.
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San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.
Green Bank, West Virginia
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
Zwiggelte, Netherlands
A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.
Pingtang County, China
The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Sylacauga, Alabama
A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The first space rock known to have struck a human.
Toledo, Spain
This ancient Roman cistern has been the source of many legends throughout the centuries.
Namur, Belgium
A trompe-l'oeil fresco celebrating 250 Walloon figures who left their mark on the region.
Bankhead, Alberta
The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.
Gorongosa, Mozambique
When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.
Wentworth Point, Australia
Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.
Baturiti, Indonesia
An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Barú, Colombia
Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.
Cape Town, South Africa
An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.
Carhué, Argentina
Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.
Qatar
Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.
Grantsville, Utah
A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Film City, Qatar
A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.
Nueva Gerona, Cuba
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
Skagen, Denmark
Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.