Yagodninsky District, Russia
Kadykchan
Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.
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Yagodninsky District, Russia
Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain
A Spanish town built into the cliffs.
Hajvali, Turkey
Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.
Penela da Beira, Portugal
An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.
Ocean Falls, British Columbia
Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.
Golan
Ghost Town in the Demilitarized Zone of the Golan Heights.
Buffalo, New York
Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.
Kyrgyzstan
Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.
Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt
An endless sea of white conical domes.
Qasr al Hajj, Libya
A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.
Maqabil, Oman
Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.
Shaharah, Yemen
One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.
Bidah Valley, Saudi Arabia
Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.
Llívia, Spain
This 15th century pharmacy displays a beautiful collection of ancient medicine jars.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
El Hierro, Spain
Teeny tiny hotel on the coast of the Canary Islands.
Vilanova de Sau, Spain
A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Shahrak, Afghanistan
200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.
Nokhur, Turkmenistan
A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Cotonou, Benin
Africa's Venice on stilts.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Cairo, Egypt
In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.
Worms, Germany
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.