Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Garavice Memorial Park
A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.
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Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.
Novo Selo Palanječko, Croatia
A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.
Rome, Italy
The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Antarctica
Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.
Iceland
A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.
Almaly, Kazakhstan
An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.
Lake Itasca, Minnesota
At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.
Murdo, South Dakota
The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.
Lonaconing, Maryland
A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.
Rockville, Maryland
The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.
Bucharest, Romania
Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Washington, D.C.
This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
Kilkenny, Ireland
The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.
Athlone, Ireland
The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.
Minski rajon, Belarus
Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.
Smaliavicki rajon, Belarus
A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.