Bucharest, Romania
Politehnica Metro Station
This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.
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Bucharest, Romania
This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.
Bucharest, Romania
An abandoned pasta factory in the centre of Bucharest, once home to Bulgarian revolutionaries and a hub of crime.
Bucharest, Romania
Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.
Bucharest, Romania
The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Fez, Morocco
Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.
Province de Ouarzazate, Morocco
An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."
Al Haouz, Morocco
The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.
Dublin, Ireland
A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Dublin, Ireland
The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.
Potosi, Bolivia
Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.
Tamarugal, Chile
Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.
Chile
A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.
Sewell, Chile
The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.
Argentina
Are they the remains of a fallen hotel, or the final stronghold for escaped Nazis?
Cushamen, Argentina
With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
El Chaltén, Argentina
The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.
Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.
Nariño, Colombia
A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.