Charleroi, Belgium
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The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
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Charleroi, Belgium
The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
West Milford, New Jersey
This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.
Russia
What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Box Hill, Australia
A local landmark that has become a hub of graffiti and urban exploration.
Dhar Lama Chung Chung, India
This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.
Putty, Australia
Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.
Jeongseon, South Korea
Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.
Krong Kaeb, Cambodia
An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.
Herat, Afghanistan
Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.
Jerash, Jordan
Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Blackpool, England
This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.
Budapest, Hungary
A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.
Ponsanooth, England
A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Capri, Italy
The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.
Williamstown, Australia
An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.
Collioure, France
Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.
Belchite, Spain
A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”
Dover, England
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.
Etsaut, France
This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
Earlton, New York
This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.