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8.2041, -12.0640
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51.2964, -0.7497
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42.9614, -89.5073
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52.8631, -102.3887
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Zacatecas, Mexico
Rafael Coronel Museum
Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.
22.7821, -102.5698
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Farrandsville Iron Furnace
This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.
41.1748, -77.5144
Volterra, Italy
Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
43.4000, 10.8756
Trieste, Italy
Risiera di San Sabba
During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.
45.6209, 13.7892
Camerata Nuova, Italy
Camerata Vecchia
The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.
42.0115, 13.1229
Castel di Tora, Italy
Ruins of Antuni
A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.
42.2109, 12.9684
Death Valley, California
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns
Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.
36.2467, -117.0761
Walnut Creek, California
The Eye of Diablo
This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.
37.8817, -121.9138
Santiago, Chile
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art)
This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.
-33.4389, -70.6521
Salvador, Brazil
Casa Coati
This modernist building is the last remnant of an ambitious plan to restore a neighborhood.
-12.9733, -38.5122
North Berwick, Scotland
St Andrew's Kirk Ports
The ruins of the second of three churches dedicated to the saint in a touristic Scottish town.
56.0578, -2.7188
Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
Carrickfergus Radar Tower
An abandoned shipping control tower looks like a satellite perched at the end of a pier.
54.7105, -5.8064
San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia
Tequendama Falls Museum
This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.
4.6167, -74.3500
Cartagena, Colombia
Ábaco Libros y Café
A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.
10.4251, -75.5513
Quito, Ecuador
Teleférico Quito
The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.
-0.1921, -78.5196
Cusco, Peru
Sacsayhuamán
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
-13.5098, -71.9817
Mariscal Cáceres Province, Peru
Gran Pajaten
These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.
-7.6815, -77.2865
Mississauga, Ontario
Hanlan's Corner Cemetery
A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.
43.6557, -79.6467
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Riverview Hospital
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
49.2455, -122.8089
Saint-Chrysostome, Québec
Edwardstown Anglican Church
With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.
45.1177, -73.7392
Manchester, Connecticut
Union Pond Mill
An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.
41.8094, -72.5192
Boston, Massachusetts
Brook Farm
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
42.2914, -71.1741
West Boylston, Massachusetts
Old Stone Church
The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.
42.3750, -71.7829
San Agustín Etla, Mexico
La Planta (Power Plant)
Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.
17.2040, -96.7262
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