Embudo, New Mexico
Johnnie Meier Classical Gas Museum
One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.
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Embudo, New Mexico
One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
Kissimmee, Florida
Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Rome, Italy
An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.
Venice, Italy
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina
These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.
Jasenovac, Croatia
Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.
Malička, Croatia
This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
Štulac, Serbia
Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.
Niš, Serbia
This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.
Koracica, Serbia
This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.
Vukovar, Croatia
Built as an anti-fascist tribute, this surreal Yugoslav memorial became an unwelcome symbol after the Croatian war for independence.
Zlatiborski okrug, Serbia
A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.
Čačak, Serbia
This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.
Kruševac, Serbia
Curious carved stones and bird-like wings are a symbol of Serbian resilience and freedom on the site of a WWII massacre.
Jabuka, Serbia
An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.
Kragujevac, Serbia
Abstract monuments express sorrow and resilience at the site of a horrific massacre in Nazi-occupied Serbia.