Trân Châu, Vietnam
Hospital Cave
This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.
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Trân Châu, Vietnam
This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.
Gordonsville, Virginia
This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.
Gdańsk, Poland
The site of the first battle of World War II.
London, Ontario
The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.
North Bend, Washington
A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Gdynia, Poland
A haunting deserted hotel is a favorite with artists and photographers.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Waldeck, Germany
As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.
Ketchikan, Alaska
This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
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.
Ali Sadr, Iran
This vast, water-filled underground labyrinth can only be toured by boat.
Yakushima, Japan
The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'
Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Lancaster, England
The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Ashibetsu, Japan
A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Hartford, Connecticut
An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.
Jeffrey City, Wyoming
This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.
Needles, California
An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.