Vieques, Puerto Rico
Mosquito Bay
The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
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Vieques, Puerto Rico
The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.
Dakar, Senegal
This abandoned bunker looks out over the Atlantic from its clifftop perch.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Negril, Jamaica
Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.
Takaka, New Zealand
Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.
Ione, California
One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.
Placerville, California
Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Bollène, France
Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.
Qaradagh, Azerbaijan
Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.
California City, California
Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Takehara, Japan
Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.
San Antonio, Mexico
Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.
Xuân Trạch, Vietnam
World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
South Bay, Florida
One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.