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No children ride down this antique concrete slide.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

Hundreds of "animals" created from scrap metal, alongside a collection of other oddities.

This old Soviet gas station is in perfect condition, one of the best-preserved mosaics in the country.

A slope with a mysterious name recalls a discontinued pre-war energy drink.

The remains of a cable car used for bauxite mining after World War I hides in a coastal forest.

A strategically positioned fortress that protected the Fazana channel has found new life as a place for theater.

After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.

This striking clock tower was once part of the Singer sewing machine factory.

What looks like an ordinary house from the outside is actually a rotating sculpture.

This abandoned park is home to hundreds of stone statues ranging from humans to mystical beings.

How did this desert wind up in the middle of a Polish forest?

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

An ancient mountain-cut pass runs largely forgotten in the suburbs of Kamakura.

A suburban housing complex with astonishing architectural features, locally nicknamed "the Camemberts."

Outside of where Tsukiji Market once stood, these memorials honor the spirits of the fallen fish, shrimp, and eggs used for nigiri.

The ruins of a failed dam that was built over land later described as a "sponge."

This retro izakaya street is a unique legacy of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

All 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac are depicted in anthropomorphized deity form.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.