Nampa, Idaho
Map Rock
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
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Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Minski rajon, Belarus
Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.
Tahkuna, Estonia
Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Uozu-shi, Japan
Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.
Wisniowa, Poland
The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.
Lebanon, Kansas
Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
Marlborough, England
Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?
Corsham, England
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.
Bolívar, Venezuela
The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.
St. Augustine, Florida
Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.
Alderson, West Virginia
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Nunavut
Rare mummified forest could offers a glimpse into how our environment has been changed by humans.
New York, New York
This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.
New York, New York
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
Ämari, Estonia
This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.
Flåm, Norway
One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.
Burgh-Haamstede, Netherlands
Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.
Turukhansky District, Russia
Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.