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An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.