Al Madam, United Arab Emirates
Buried Village of Al Madam
An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.
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Al Madam, United Arab Emirates
An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.
Ribadesella, Spain
A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.
Nardò, Italy
A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.
Naantali, Finland
A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.
Anjuna, India
This weekly bazaar started in the 1960s as a way for hippie travelers to barter their goods.
Brooklyn, New York
This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.
New Delhi, India
This synagogue is the only place of worship for New Delhi’s small Jewish community.
Queens, New York
Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.
Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Washington, D.C.
Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Queens, New York
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.
Queens, New York
An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.
Niagara Falls, New York
Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.
New York, New York
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
New York, New York
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
New York, New York
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
New York, New York
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
New York, New York
A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.
New York, New York
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
Eleele, Hawaii
This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.
Koloa, Hawaii
A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.
Honolulu, Hawaii
What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.
Lanai City, Hawaii
The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.