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Gunkanjima Island

Nagasaki, Japan

Gunkanjima Island

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Joya de Ceren

El Salvador

Joya de Ceren

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.

Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The schoolhouse of Humberstone, The Gourmet Family

Tamarugal, Chile

The Nitrate Towns of Chile

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

Courtesy of Michael John Grist
Permanently Closed

Mito, Japan

The Pearl Love Hotel

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

El Deir ("The Monastery"), Petra.

Petra District, Jordan

Petra

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The Thames Forts in 2013

England

Maunsell Army Sea Forts

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Slaughterhouse Five

Dresden, Germany

Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

"PRIPYAT 1970"

Prypiat, Ukraine

Abandoned City of Prypiat

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The dome is visible from the air—a perfect circle concealing something darker.

Marshall Islands

Cactus Dome

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Wunderland Kalkar

Kalkar, Germany

Wunderland Kalkar

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

The Underwater Pirate City of Port Royal

Port Royal, Jamaica

Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Remains of South Carolina's second brick powder magazine (source: spinkk/Atlas Obscura)

Summerville, South Carolina

Dorchester, South Carolina's Abandoned Town

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Balestrino Ghost Village

Balestrino, Italy

Balestrino Ghost Village

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Prypiat Amusement Park

Prypiat, Ukraine

Prypiat Amusement Park

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Popeye Village

Mellieħa, Malta

Popeye Village

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

Rubjerg Knude

Løkken, Denmark

Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

(Flickr/Ethelred the Unusual)

Charmouth, England

Charmouth Beach

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Memorial to the Mary Celeste

Diligent River, Nova Scotia

Mary Celeste Monument

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

(Flickr/Frank Kehren)

St. Marys, Georgia

Dungeness Ruins

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

The Poveglia hospital.
Permanently Closed

Venice, Italy

Poveglia Plague Island

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Pier 54: The Titanic’s Arrival Destination

New York, New York

Pier 54: The Titanic’s Arrival Destination

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Deception Island

Antarctica

Deception Island

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A closer look on the niche of the Great Buddha

Bamyan, Afghanistan

Site of the Bamiyan Buddhas

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

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