Balestrino, Italy
Balestrino Ghost Village
Abandoned medieval hill town.
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Balestrino, Italy
Abandoned medieval hill town.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Gjirokaster, Albania
This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Përmet District, Albania
A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Bordoy, Faroe Islands
Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.
Kunoy, Faroe Islands
The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
Kalsoy, Faroe Islands
This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.
Gasadalur Village, Faroe Islands
This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .
Tasiilaq, Greenland
Small Island off the coast of Greenland.
Greenland
The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.
Antarctica
Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.
Antarctica
Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.
Antarctica
The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.
King George Island, Antarctica
Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.
Antarctica
One of the world's southernmost bars.
Agua Blanca, Ecuador
The remains of an ancient settlement in one of the oldest archeological sites in South America.
San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador
An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.
Tulcan, Ecuador
This Ecuadorian cemetery is home to a jaw-dropping topiary wonderland.