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This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.