Cartersville, Georgia
The Cartersville Abandoned Plane
This mysterious twin turboprop Grumman G-159 covered in graffiti has spent a decade and a half abandoned.
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Cartersville, Georgia
This mysterious twin turboprop Grumman G-159 covered in graffiti has spent a decade and a half abandoned.
Leśniewo, Poland
Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Plaisance Ward, Seychelles
In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.
Oakland, Illinois
An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.
Yermo, California
A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Sydney, Australia
A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.
Lospalos, Timor-Leste
This crocodile-infested Timor-Leste reservoir is also home to a spectacular half-sunken forest.
Iceland
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.
Beira, Mozambique
This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.
Panguila, Angola
Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.
Yangjiang, China
Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.
Silea, Italy
A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.
Isle of Man
The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.
Woodstock, New York
A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.
Kaédi, Mauritania
The beehive-like buildings of this abandoned resort reside near the border of Mauritania and Senegal.
Hamilton, Ontario
An abandoned skate park located in the middle of the wilderness.
Portland, Maine
Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.
Nathrop, Colorado
This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.
Helfaut, France
This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.
Kecamatan Prambanan, Indonesia
This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.