Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Bunkers in Staatswald
These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.
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Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.
Roche Caiman, Seychelles
A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.
Virolahti, Finland
Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Fairbanks, Alaska
A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
A mysterious, weather-beaten bus lies on the coast of Harris, enticing the curious to investigate.
Valentine Plains, Australia
For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.
Beacon, New York
Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.
Forno, Italy
The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.
Prypiat, Ukraine
A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Prypiat, now long-abandoned.
Oranienburg, Germany
This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.
Lorain, Ohio
A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.
Bucharest, Romania
A chemical factory damaged by two earthquakes and an explosion that became abandoned after bankruptcy.
Krakow, Poland
This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.
Pembroke, Malta
These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.
Argentina
This rusty hull was used as fighter plane target practice during the Falklands War.
Bartlett, New Hampshire
An old locomotive hides deep in the forest.
Wasilla, Alaska
Cold War missile site at high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, now a post-apocalyptic backdrop.
Loison, France
A World War I German experimental concrete plant, hidden deep in a French forest.
Kumbor, Montenegro
Relics designed to contain and conceal Yugoslavian submarines.
Sala, Sweden
Sweden’s legendary mine with wildly deep tunnels.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.
Sarbinowo, Poland
This abandoned but well-preserved Prussian fortress sits abandoned in a Polish forest near the German border.
Hong Kong
The tunnels in the ruins of this failed British World War II defensive line bear the names of famous London streets.