Fairview, Utah
Thistle Ghost Town
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
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Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Schnals, Italy
Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.
Bezidu Nou, Romania
This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Port Royal, Jamaica
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."
Kaleüçağız Köyü, Turkey
Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.
Borth, Wales
A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.
Brighton, England
Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.
Catarman, Philippines
A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Golubac, Serbia
This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.
Rye, New Hampshire
Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Vagli Sopra, Italy
This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Kobe, Japan
Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.
Yamagata, Japan
The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Kyoto, Japan
A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.