Puno, Peru
Sillustani
These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.
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Puno, Peru
These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.
Detroit, Michigan
Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
Rochester, New York
The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.
Kelowna, British Columbia
Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hotel designed by indie graphics artists.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Islamorada, Florida
This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.
Aalborg, Denmark
From buck blood to Theriak miracle tonic, this collection of Renaissance chemist's gear look's like a wizard's pantry.
Hveragerði, Iceland
Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.
Hangzhou, China
In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.
Chisinau, Moldova
This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.
Jackson, Mississippi
Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
St. Louis, Missouri
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
Alxa, China
No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.
Seattle, Washington
This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.
Wroxall, England
This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Oranienburg, Germany
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.