Prypiat, Ukraine
Prypiat Amusement Park
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
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Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Artesina, Italy
Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.
Kissimmee, Florida
Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.
Nagoro, Japan
As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
District of Columbia
Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.
Paris, France
The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.
Paris, France
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
New York, New York
Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Los Angeles, California
During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.
Kelvedon Hatch, England
The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.
Edinburgh, Scotland
360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.
Nara, Japan
The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.