University Park, Illinois
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.
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University Park, Illinois
A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.
Monticello, Minnesota
Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.
Tortosa, Spain
These ruins are all that remain of Tortosa’s lost coal gas manufacturing industry.
Bellvue, Colorado
The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.
Valencia, Spain
This architectural oddity is an oasis of green on the outskirts of Valencia.
Slavutych, Ukraine
The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.
London, England
Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.
Brännaberget, Sweden
This abandoned Swedish folkpark offers an amazing view over the town of Överkalix.
El Paso, Texas
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
San Antonio, Texas
This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.
Grantsville, Utah
A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
Jarbidge, Nevada
One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
Kyaukse, Myanmar
The tower claims to be the world's only pagoda made entirely from Myanmar's lucrative gemstone.
Hamilton, New Zealand
A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.
Richmond, California
An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
A nondescript dirt lot hides an intriguing center of shamanic healing.
Neustadt am Kulm, Germany
A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.
Medellín, Colombia
An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.
Hammonton, New Jersey
In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.
Villar del Pozo, Spain
An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.
Tarragona, Spain
Long tunnels run under the ancient chariot racing circuit to the tower.
London, England
An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.