Kasukabe, Japan
G-Cans: the World's Largest Drain
The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.
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Kasukabe, Japan
The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.
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Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.
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This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
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Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Brooklyn, New York
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.
Queens, New York
A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.
Glen Cove, New York
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
Akhali Atoni, Georgia
The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
South Andaman, India
An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.
Antarctica
An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.
Gori, Georgia
A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.
Chiatura, Georgia
These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city
Katskhi, Georgia
Small church on top of a huge rock column.
Kumistavi, Georgia
This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Bouvet Island
This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.