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A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

A secluded oasis of contemporary art and natural beauty.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

This abandoned church was the site of one of the biggest art heists of the past decades.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

The wreck of a World War II cargo ship has become an unintentional time capsule at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

The largest salt lake in the Sahara is mysteriously alluring.

An eerie ship cemetery with gunfire as a soundtrack.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

This largely abandoned village was home to a bustling mining community in the Soviet era.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.

An open-air gallery and garden in North Lebanon with plans to continue growing.

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

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

These ruins disappear beneath the waves every winter.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.