Prypiat, Ukraine
Prypiat Amusement Park
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
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Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Vernazza, Italy
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador
An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.
McLean, Virginia
A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.
New York, New York
During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Roslin, Scotland
A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.
Brooklyn, New York
This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.
Chicago, Illinois
This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Brooklyn, New York
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.