Blace, Serbia
Spomenik Šljivi
A Serbian monument to plums.
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Blace, Serbia
A Serbian monument to plums.
Zelenikovo, Bulgaria
A supersonic jet stands on a pedestal in this rural village as a monument to military aviation.
Ashley, Pennsylvania
This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.
Charleroi, Belgium
The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
Marseille, France
A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.
Bergamo, Italy
It's believed that the dead were once taken out of houses through these now walled-up doors.
Malička, Croatia
This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.
Carhué, Argentina
Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.
Istra, Russia
A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.
Queens, New York
A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.
Korčula, Croatia
When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Zwentendorf, Austria
Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.
East Cleveland, Ohio
This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.
Maple Ridge, British Columbia
A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.
Nicosia, Cyprus
This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.
Egkomi, Cyprus
This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.