Vatican City
Gallery of Maps - Galleria delle Carte Geografiche
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Kapa'a, Hawaii
This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.
Solvang, California
California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.
Kimberley, South Africa
Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Bloomington, Indiana
A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.
Mexico
A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.
Benicia, California
The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.
Homestead, Florida
When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.
Goodyear, Arizona
This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Bloomington, Indiana
If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.
Saguenay, Québec
Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.
Matavun, Slovenia
This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."
Des Moines, Iowa
Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.
Nueva Gerona, Cuba
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
Alexandria Bay, New York
A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.
Agua Dulce, California
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
Brooklyn, New York
The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”
Llanberis, Wales
The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Barbados
A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.
Guernsey
Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
Bahamas
One of the deepest blue holes in the world.