Tatebayashi-shi, Japan
Morin-ji Temple
This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.
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Tatebayashi-shi, Japan
This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Salinas, California
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Hrodna, Belarus
This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.
Kenya
A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Calistoga, California
California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.
Tattershall, England
The near loss of the stately fireplaces at this medieval castle spawned some of Britain's most crucial historic preservation laws.
Bingley, England
The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
Washington, D.C.
In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.
Waterloo, Iowa
This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
Poland
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Tréguennec, France
The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.
Ketrzyn, Poland
This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.
Pniewo, Poland
What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.
Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.
Gryfino, Poland
Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.
Rybachiy, Russia
The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.
LaPlace, Louisiana
All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.
Hamburg, Germany
Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.